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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>771 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hung Le planned to write a novel about a <b>refugee</b> and his various predicaments. Then he realised what he was writing was a memoir. THUY ON reports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When comedian Hung Le was growing up in Melbourne in the 1970s and '80s, he had a eureka moment when he realised some Vietnamese refugees were good at maths and some weren't. He recognised he sat firmly in the latter camp.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I went to school with migrant kids who seem to breeze through school and uni and here I was failing HSC English. D'oh ..."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He planned to write a novel about a <b>refugee</b> who ends up working on cruise ships, telling jokes about coming by <b>boat</b>, who is bad at maths, is hopeless with computers and can't even play the violin in tune. "Then it hit me: that's me. So instead of making up a story, I'll just write my story," says this self-confessed Saigon-born bogan with an Aussie accent, whose mischief with a fiddle and ukulele would get him performing around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Crappiest <b>Refugee</b> (an obvious nod to Anh Do's The Happiest <b>Refugee</b>) is Hung Le's third book. In some respects it is a traditional rags-to-riches trajectory of the second-generation child who eventually makes good after being transposed in an alien environment, but only after cultural-clash hiccups.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this memoir, written in a rambling manner that matches Le's own peripatetic path in entertainment, maintains a jokey stand-up tone throughout. Even when the situation is dire, he tries to defuse the grimness with levity, ("The ship had set off with no food, water, fuel, karaoke ... nothin."). His love of puns is there throughout - "Wok and roll", "Now and Zen" "Hollywoodn't" are some of the chapter titles. That one of the first Vietnamese <b>boat</b> people ends up telling jokes on luxury cruise liners many moons later is a punchline in itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Le was born in 1966, with the name Le Trung Hung - Vietnamese for Renaissance Man. He has fulfilled that grandiose promise in his decades-long career as a musician, comedian, actor and documentary-maker.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He grew up with a lychee tree and an enormous Buddha, sculpted by his artist father, in the family front yard. But the house was behind the Presidential Palace, "which in 1970s Saigon was a very stupid place to live ... That's where all the shooting was aimed."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On April 29, 1975, when he was nine, the tanks rolled in and Le and his family were forced to escape in a prawn trawler. It felt like being on a "wafer-thin piece of wet cigarette paper blowing in the wind".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After surviving storms and the captain abandoning his own ship, they were rescued by the <span class="companylink">US Navy</span> and sojourned at Guam before being flown to Melbourne. Le's first home in Australia was a one-bedroom flat that had to accommodate nine people; his relatives worked in blue-collar jobs to eke out a living.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Le wasn't one to conform to parental and societal expectations of being the good Asian <b>refugee</b> and following the pathway of secure employment. Though he and his siblings were pushed into being music geeks, Le was a smart-arse rebel who credits Charlie Chaplin's slapstick, Bruce Lee's physical chutzpah and his mother's deafness (necessitating face pulling and sign language) for his own performance style.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He deliberately played his violin out of tune for his own amusement. "I wanted to be the Jerry Lewis of the fiddle, causing chaos behind the facade of classical music," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After his string quartet (of five members) won Red Faces on Hey Hey It's Saturday, Le found himself on an extraordinary career that led him to perform not just music, but also stand-up comedy at festivals globally, including a gig with the Muppets in London and on Weird Al Yankovic's TV special in the States.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Being versatile is the aim. You watch those old vaudeville acts and old movie stars, they can all sing and dance and tell jokes and clown and play instruments and write music - everything," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When asked about his thoughts on the number of Asians in the entertainment industry today, Le is optimistic. "The flood gates have opened. Great to see a couple of Vietnamese actors in the new Star Wars. And now with Black Panther, next would definitely have to be an Asian super hero. By day a mild-mannered pho chef, but by night, Kikkoman ..."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">comedyfestival.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>596 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Safe Harbour Wednesday, 8.35pm, <span class="companylink">SBS</span> This terrific thriller — created by Belinda Chayko, Phil Enchelmaier and Simon Kennedy, and directed by Glendyn Ivin — continues this week. (Check out the first episode on <span class="companylink">SBS</span> On Demand if necessary.) The story began with of a group of Queenslanders, played by Ewen Leslie, Phoebe Tonkin, Joel Jackson, Leeanna Walsman and Jacqueline McKenzie, on a sailing holiday. But when they encounter a broken-down <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b>-seekers trying to reach Australia, played by Nicole Chamoun, Hazem Shammas and Robert Rabiah, everyone’s life was changed forever. Ostensibly, everyone wants to know who cut the tow rope in the night — but there are even bigger reveals ahead. This week, Ismail (Shammas) reports the death of his daughter to the AFP.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Harrow Friday, 8.30pm, ABC Dashing Welshman Ioan Gruffudd (Hornblower) stars as the eponymous forensic pathologist in this new Australian drama. Harrow was preparing to quit and sail to Bora Bora with his troubled daughter when the persistent father (Gary Sweet) of a dead girl persuaded him to take one last case. Of course we can see he is destined to choose his job over his loved ones again and again, but he’s a good guy underneath it all, right? Wrong. It looks very much like he chops the fingers off bodies so they can’t be identified and buries them in concrete in the Brisbane River. Harrow’s boss Maxine is played by Robyn Malcolm, and his colleagues include Darren Gilshenan and Remy Hii (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>’s Marco Polo). It is very satisfactory Friday night fare.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Homeland Friday, 8.40pm, <span class="companylink">SBS</span> It’s season seven of Homeland and Carrie Mathison’s behaviour and predicaments still make me feel really uncomfortable — in a good way. A recent storyline saw a hacker encrypt her laptop and try to extort $20,000 from her. She lured him with the promise of sex and smashed him half to death (after he reversed his malware). Another saw her fail to blag her way out of an arrest for burglary. In short, Homeland still has that thrilling tension where anything could happen at any time. The show’s episode descriptions are notoriously vague, and this week we are told: “Carrie puts a plan in motion. Saul visits a source. Keane makes a desperate plea.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FREE-TO-AIR FILMSMonday night will present an exquisite dilemma for some TV viewers: at the same time as Constantine (Monday, 8.30pm, Go!) screens, Ten’s channel 11 is bringing back Buffy the Vampire Slayer, right from the pilot episode. Where oh where to get the most sublime supernatural fix? I’m on the fence. The former stars Keanu Reeves in the title role, alongside Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton and former rock star Gavin Rossdale. Talented Swede Peter Stormare also delivers a memorable portrayal of the devil. If watching David Attenborough-narrated ocean documentaries isn’t enough of a nostalgia-fest for you, each week after Blue Planet II the Nine Network has been screening the Back to the Future films. This week it’s Back to the Future Part III (Saturday, 8.10pm, Nine) — the cowboy one — again starring Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox. Meanwhile, who would have thought that more than 15 years after the release of Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine (Sunday, 8.30pm, <span class="companylink">SBS</span>), mass school shootings would still be a thing in America? Among other things, it features a memorable interview with actor and former National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gtvrad : Television/Radio | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020180308ee3a00090</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020180308ee3900001" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TV</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Loving the normality</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COLIN VICKERY </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>379 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>86</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PHOEBE Tonkin is relishing the chance to play normal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 28-year-old Australian has spent the past seven years acting in US supernatural dramas The Secret Circle, The Vampire Diaries and, most recently, The Originals.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">SBS</span>’s Australian drama Safe Harbour couldn’t be more different – no spells, no fangs, no green screen, no special effects.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Safe Harbour is much more grounded than my other recent shows and that means the style of acting is really naturalistic,” Tonkin (pictured above) says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Safe Harbour could have been ripped from the headlines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ryan and Bree Gallagher (Ewen Leslie and Leeanna Walsman) have bought a second-hand yacht in Darwin and invited a group of friends, including Ryan’s sister Olivia (Tonkin) and boyfriend Damien (Joel Jackson), for a boating holiday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After less than a day’s sailing, a broken down and leaking fishing <b>boat</b> overloaded with <b>asylum</b> seekers appears on the horizon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do they help or not? After a heated discussion, Ryan decides to tow the beleaguered <b>boat</b> but by next morning, after a severe storm the <b>boat</b> is missing. “It is the ripple effect of something (cutting the rope) that is almost a split-second decision – how big an impact that can have on your life and even strangers’ lives,” Tonkin says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That is what I think is so interesting about the series. It asks a lot of questions of the audience.” The Originals comes to an end this season but Tonkin has already booked herself a guest role on acclaimed US drama The Affair. But if Tonkin gets her way she will be doing more work in Australia as well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(Success in Hollywood) has definitely required patience and perseverance,” Tonkin says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There have been lulls (between jobs) but I’ve been luckier than most because I’ve worked pretty solidly the whole time I’ve been there. I’ve just taken opportunities as they have come and doing a job like this (Safe Harbour) reignites the excitement. What we are exploring is very real and very current. I did a lot of research on the <b>refugee</b> crisis. This has been a passion project for everyone and it has been really exciting to be part of that.”SAFE HARBOUR, WEDNESDAYS, 8.30PM, <span class="companylink">SBS</span>
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>vietn : Vietnam | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indochz : Indo-China | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020180308ee3900001</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020180308ee3900053" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>From terror's clutch to Stella chance</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jason Steger </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>655 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PRIZE SHORTLIST</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shokoofeh Azar couldn't imagine a life beyond the confines of the tiny <b>boat</b> on which she and 75 other people were making the perilous crossing from Indonesia to Christmas Island in search of sanctuary.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I couldn't think about future. When you are in the <b>boat</b> and you see storm and disaster and everybody was crying," she says. "You face your death when you see the huge waves and you alone in this - always when I close my eyes and remember that I feel we have been in a small matchbox in the ocean."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seven years on from the terror of that voyage, the former journalist, short story writer and artist who escaped from Iran with the help of people smugglers has much to be happy about. Not least is that her first novel, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, has been shortlisted for this year's Stella Prize for writing by Australian women.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's significant because Azar wasn't sure if her novel, written in Farsi and translated into English, would be understood here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I wasn't sure people would like my style of writing," she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other shortlisted books for the Stella are: Terra Nullius, Claire G. Coleman; The Life to Come, Michelle de Kretser; An Uncertain Grace, Krissy Kneen; The Fish Girl, Miranda Riwoe, and Tracker, Alexis Wright.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Azar covered social affairs when she worked in Tehran: human rights, women's right and workers' rights. After being arrested three times and spells in jail - the last in isolation for three months - her mother and sister told her she had to leave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They gave me money, but it wasn't easy to find a smuggler. The government took my passport, they had most of my documents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I found a smuggler, he made a fake passport and then I went to Turkey, then Indonesia and then by <b>boat</b>," she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was on Christmas Island for 25 days, detention for six months in Perth - "it was a very nice caravan park" - and then released and given permanent residency. "It was Julia Gillard's time."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is about "an intellectual family" after the 1979 Islamic revolution that overthrew the Shah and brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power and is narrated by 13-year-old Bahar. "I should confess. I am her," Azar says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her father was very political: "He followed the news, he was an atheist. It is an Islamic republic and he could be executed easily if he didn't watch his mouth ... My father didn't believe or trust the republic from the first. This novel is about his people."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Azar is particularly pleased the shortlist was announced on International Women's Day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Iran is struggling with women's rights," she says. Right now we have a big campaign for freedom from the hijab. We don't want compulsory hijab."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is written in a style akin to the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and other South American writers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Azar loves Marquez, particularly his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I am fascinated by his style because the base of the work is a political story, it's a realist story." She also acknowledges the influence of classical Persian stories: "Writers in the past - I talk about 800 years ago, 500 years ago - they used magic realism because it was the only way they could describe our culture."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She concedes that although there is no chance of The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree being published in Iran, plenty of readers there have asked her when it might happen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I feel I owe so much to the Australian people who accepted me as a <b>refugee</b>, otherwise I wouldn't be able to write without fear. "It is a democratic country, I feel very grateful."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Stella Prize winner will be announced on April 12.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>iran : Iran | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | gulfstz : Persian Gulf Region | meastz : Middle East | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020180308ee3900053</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020180308ee390000i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Boats back in Batman</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Noel Towell </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>181 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens will attempt to increase the pressure on Labor this weekend in the Batman byelection campaign, stepping up their criticism of the ALP's record on refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the race to the March 17 vote approaches its final week and with no clear front-runner, the Greens will look to get an edge over their opponents with the <b>refugee</b> issue, which has tormented the ALP since the early 2000s.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens have been campaigning hard for weeks on another difficult issue for Labor, the proposed Adani coal mine in Queensland, but will pivot towards <b>asylum</b> seekers, a proven vote-winner in the inner cities since the early 2000s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's Batman candidate Ged Kearney has a long record in her previous job as ACTU president of speaking out on behalf of refugees, putting her at odds with her party's official positions on the issue, which have backed offshore detention and <b>boat</b> turn-backs as well as other harsh measures against <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The campaign for Greens candidate Alex Bhathal was launched yesterday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020180308ee390000i</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020180306ee370002g" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Today</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>remote patrol</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>140 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FREE-TO-AIR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Safe Harbour</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TODAY, 8.35PM, <span class="companylink">SBS</span>
</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This thought-provoking drama pivots around the contentious <b>asylum</b>-seeker debate and, since the first trailer was released, has divided people on social media. Unfolding over four episodes, it follows five Australian friends who come across an overloaded <b>boat</b> of refugees while on a sailing trip. Each has an opinion as to whether they should tow the <b>boat</b> to shore and they eventually agree. But next day they wake to find the <b>boat</b> missing. Five years later, the friends have gone their separate ways but are brought together by the shock revelation that one of them had cut the rope. With a stellar cast that includes Pilbara-raised Joel Jackson and Fremantle’s Ewen Leslie, Jacqueline McKenzie, Leeanna Walsman and Phoebe Tonkin, this grips from the get-go.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020180306ee370002g</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020180306ee370001k" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Television</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Thriller navigates <b>asylum</b>-seeker plight</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Justin Burke </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>336 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PICK OF THE DAY Safe Harbour 8.30pm, <span class="companylink">SBS</span>
</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I recently spoke with Australian actress Phoebe Tonkin, she definitely saw the funny side of being cast in a show set on a seaborne yacht, given her previous and most well-known role as a mermaid on H20: Just Add Water (which streams on <span class="companylink">Netflix</span>).</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There has been a lot of those ‘Don’t touch the water’ jokes, unfortunately,” she said. “It’s fine. I get it.” Tonkin joins an amazing ensemble of local talent — including the terrific Nicole Chamoun (Romper Stomper), Ewen Leslie, Joel Jackson, Leeanna Walsman, Jacqueline McKenzie, Hazem Shammas and Robert Rabiah — in this tale of drama and mystery that begins on the high seas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A crew of Australian holiday-makers are sailing in the ocean to Australia’s north when they encounter a stricken vessel of <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Should they help them? Should they tow them to Australia or back to Indonesia? Should they bring a seriously ill child on to their <b>boat</b>? (As director Glendyn Ivin told me, those are relatively easy questions to answer in the abstract, but ones he portrays as highly fraught and consequential in the show.) A storm rolls in, and someone cuts the tow rope in the night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cut to five years later in Brisbane, and what appears to be a chance meeting between Leslie’s Ryan and Shammas’s fascinating character Ismail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a past to be reckoned with, which will bring up everyone’s secrets and failings. There is also a neat little Romeo and Juliet-esque storyline of forbidden love between the offspring of feuding families.It bears repeating that Safe Harbour is meant as a humanistic drama rather than a polemical or political screed. (People praising or criticising a show they haven’t watched is nothing new.) But, as a thriller, it is extremely effective and will keep audiences guessing until the end, with many believable twists and unexpected revelations along the way.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>
SBS drama a Big Little Lies thriller</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SYDNEY CONFIDENTIAL with Jonathon Moran, Karlie Rutherford, Kris Crane & Alison Stephenson </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>202 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2018 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joel Jackson has compared <span class="companylink">SBS</span> drama Safe Harbour to <span class="companylink">HBO</span>’s awards juggernaut Big Little Lies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the four-part psychological thriller, filmed and set in Brisbane, follows an encoun-ter with <b>asylum</b> seekers, Jackson said Safe Harbour wasn’t political propaganda about <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It presents this conundrum for the audience to solve,” the Logie-winning actor (inset) told Confidential from Los Angeles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If you think about Big Little Lies … the drama and the human element is so intense and this will be the same thing. At the forefront is the human issue.” In Safe Harbour, which airs on <span class="companylink">SBS</span> tonight, a group of Australians enjoying a sailing holiday north of Australia encounter a broken-down fishing <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While they decide to attach the broken <b>boat</b> to their yacht, the rope is mysteriously cut overnight leading to a horrific tragedy that the group are still dealing with five years on.Jackson, who also filmed Jungle alongside Daniel Radcliffe in Queensland, has already been short-listed for a Logie nomination as most popular actor for his work on Safe Harbour.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>TV</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>243 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>70</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FREE-TO-AIR HIGHLIGHTS MUST SEE TV SAFE HARBOUR 8.35PM, <span class="companylink">SBS</span> DRAMA A thought-provoking thriller in which a group of friends, enjoying a sailing holiday encounter a broken-down <b>boat</b> packed with <b>asylum</b> seekers. Planning to tow them to safety, in the morning they find the <b>boat</b> has gone. Five years later, they find out someone — one of their own group — must have cut the rope. The <b>boat</b> sank, and seven people died. Superb cast includes Phoebe Tonkin, Leeanna Walsman, Jacqueline Mackenzie, Ewen Leslie, Joel Jackson (pictured with Tonkin), Hazem Shammas and Nicole Chamoun.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SQUINTERS 9PM, ABC COMEDY Like Rosehaven, this comedy has been an easy watch and slow-burn in the likeability department. Tonight, Bridget (Mandy McElhinney, above) ghosts her needy boyfriend; Romi and Paul (Andrea Demetriades and Tim Minchin) negotiate pet names after having sex; while Talia (Rose Matafeo) is still on the hunt for the virgin hair thief.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MANU’S AMERICAN ROAD TRIP 9PM, SEVEN LIFESTYLESitting by an alligator-infested waterway cooking one of the creatures seems unnecessarily provocative, but MKR judge Manu Feildel is more than willing to get his hands on the beasts for this American eating odyssey. This series is a bit like Postcards — host goes to a place, eats a thing, has a good time. And why wouldn’t he? Getting paid to travel the US is a brilliant gig. Manu also has a go at redneck fishing and Cuban sandwich-eating.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gtvrad : Television/Radio | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020180306ee370000k</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020180306ee370000x" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hit</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>HIT TV Wednesday, March 7</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ANNA BRAIN </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>282 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">thriller SAFE HARBOUR <span class="companylink">SBS</span>, 8.35pm * * * * 1/2 A thought-provoking thriller in which a group of friends, enjoying a sailing holiday, encounter a broken down <b>boat</b> packed with <b>asylum</b> seekers. Planning to tow them to safety, in the morning they find the <b>boat</b> has gone. Five years later they find out someone — one of their own group — must have cut the rope. The <b>boat</b> sank, and seven people died. Superb cast includes Phoebe Tonkin, Leeanna Walsman, Jacqueline Mackenzie, Ewen Leslie, Joel Jackson, Hazem Shammas and Nicole Chamoun.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NEW SERIES</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">film • review SCREEN Foxtel Arts, 7.30pm * * * * Margaret Pomeranz is back with a new show and a new friend, TV critic Graeme Blundell. She had a remarkable chemistry with David Stratton, and At the Movies was a longtime favourite, but we’ll take what we can get. As the name suggests, the new show covers the big screen and small, allowing Margaret and Graeme to do what they do best. For their first show they’ll talk Oscars contenders; Margaret interviews Australian director Stephan Elliot; and Graeme looks at a new doco, Jane.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">cooking • travel MANU’S AMERICAN ROAD TRIP Seven, 9pm * * 1/2Sitting by an alligator-infested waterway cooking one of the beasts seems unnecessarily provocative, but MKR judge Manu Feildel is more than willing to get his hands on the beasts for this American eating odyssey. This series is a bit like Postcards; host goes to a place, eats a thing, has a good time. And why wouldn’t he? Getting paid to travel the US is a brilliant gig. He also has a go at redneck fishing and Cuban sandwich-eating.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gmovie : Movies | gent : Arts/Entertainment | gtvrad : Television/Radio | gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020180306ee370000x</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020180305ee360002f" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Epicure</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Tiny Anchovy makes a big splash Quickfire corner</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Myffy Rigby </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1244 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Grill</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Attitude trumps size in this mighty modern Asian restaurant.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chef Thi Le wanted to own her own restaurant by the time she was 35. She opened the doors to Anchovy, in Melbourne's Richmond, on her 30th birthday, so she's way ahead of schedule.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Much like Lee Ho Fook's Victor Liong, Thi Le grew up in Sydney's western suburbs. "But," she pauses. "I'm probably a bit more ghetto than Victor."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Le grew up in Doonside, a suburb of Blacktown, in Sydney's outer west. At the time, they were the only Vietnamese family in the area, which was mostly populated by Lebanese and Turkish families. In fact, most people thought they ran Eastern Phoenix, the local Chinese restaurant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She describes her childhood as rough, and as a teenager she was a troublemaker. But she didn't exactly have an easy start.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her mother, a <b>refugee</b> from the Vietnam War, escaped the country by <b>boat</b> to Malaysia with her husband and Le's two older sisters. Le was born in a Malaysian <b>refugee</b> camp, spending her first two years there before migrating to Australia. She has no memory of that time, only photographs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their father made his way to Australia first. When he arrived, he met another woman and quietly remarried. "Mum found out when she got over here. She's pretty strong-willed; she was like, 'See you later'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her mother found another partner, and gave Le another sister. She describes her stepfather as controlling, abusive and strict. He beat the girls so badly, they'd have to lie when they went to the doctor with their injuries, which included cracked skulls. Her older sister tried to run away from home. Eventually, Le's mother left, and ended up raising four girls by herself with little money and no English.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a tough childhood, and strictly Catholic on top of that. And the fact that Le was gay didn't help. "[My mother] used to pray to Jesus every day," says Le, who had a girlfriend all through high school. "But she's all for it now, so it's good - she stopped praying.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was quite religious when I was young. I was like, if Jesus made us, why did he make people gay? I couldn't understand the actual concept of that. So I read the Bible back to front and nothing says you can't be gay. It just says, 'Don't commit adultery.' And I kind of went 'OK, I'm not going to church ever again'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was 17 when she visited Vietnam for the first time and spoke to her uncles about her mother's part in the war. "Going over there really woke me up," she says. "During the Vietnam War she helped a lot of people flee Vietnam, and she was up for execution. [People in] the village where she's from hid her in rice barrels. She was working for the <span class="companylink">US government</span> as well."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After finishing high school, Le moved into a Redfern share house with no real plans. "All I wanted to do was get as far from Doonside as possible."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She enrolled in design school, met her partner at the time and decided to do some travelling through Europe. "We were going overseas to look at architecture, but that didn't really happen. I was more interested in the old ladies and their little food stories."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was while she was staying with her partner's aunt in Leeds, in northern England, that she started thinking seriously about cooking. When she got back to Sydney, she put herself through TAFE, then went to work for Anthony Redondi at Aqua Dining in Milsons Point, on Sydney's North Shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even as a junior chef Le was hot property. After taking part in a mentor program that Christine Manfield was running, the chef-restaurateur poached Le to work at her celebrated Darlinghurst restaurant, Universal. "It was like a family. We joked around, we hung out after work. When you're surrounded by people who want to be there, [the work] no longer becomes hard."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Le says Manfield mothered her "in a tough love kind of way", but also schooled her in the ingredients she'd pick up on her travels around the world. "She'd get really excited: 'Try this, try this, try this. What do you guys think?' So, there was a lot of input, just talking about how you felt about things. Anthony and Chris both really nurture their chefs and teach you to work collectively rather than individually."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She'd been working with Manfield for a couple of years when Andrew McConnell held the Sydney launch of his first book, Cumulus Inc., at Universal in 2011. Meeting him shifted Le's ideas about cooking and food. "There were so many things that went into all Christine's dishes, and here came this guy from Melbourne who did four elements on the plate and it was just as good. I was blown away by his simplicity."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So it was that Le, broken-hearted from a recent separation and in need of a change of scenery, found herself working at Cumulus Inc. in Melbourne, where she met her now girlfriend and business partner, Jia-Yen Lee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Together, in 2015, they opened Anchovy in Richmond. Having never run her own kitchen, it was uncharted territory. "I said to my partner, 'I'm not ready. I need to go do chef things.' And she said to me, 'You'll spend the rest of your life learning. I don't know what the difference between now and five years is, because as a chef you never stop learning'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The tiny but mighty modern Asian restaurant was created on the smell of an oily rag. The entire fitout cost less than $100,000, with much of the cooking equipment coming straight from Le's home kitchen. "I have a good friend who said to me at the time, 'Thi, it's your first restaurant. I'm sure there'll be many more to come, so don't let your ego get in the way'. We only had two pots, one pan, a couple of pizza trays. Barely anything."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To date, they've doubled their staff, secured a hat in the Good Food Guide, and managed to create a restaurant that even Le's mum likes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I find a lot of Asian kids want to take their parents out somewhere nice to eat, and then the parents get there and they get quite upset because the dishes aren't flavourful enough or there's not enough chilli. They always pick at something.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"So I was like 'all right, I'm going to create a restaurant where Mum can sit in there and not say a single word'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Music to cook to: '90s R&B. I was listening to Ne-Yo the other day, deboning 140 quails.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After-midnight snack: I tend to make a salad or two-minute noodles for my partner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kitchen weapon at work: Mortar and pestle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Formative food moment: I was about eight years old, and Mum had made beef tartare. I think I ate two plates. It was just so good.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Non-cooking ninja skill: Ican kill any karaoke song. I'm such a bad singer. I can makethe whole room go, "Oh shut up, Thi."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gfod : Food/Drink | gcat : Political/General News | glife : Living/Lifestyle</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | melb : Melbourne | sydney : Sydney | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020180305ee360002f</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020180304ee350000k" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Smaller boats on $1.2b project’s radar</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phoebe Wearne Canberra </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>216 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A $1.2 billion upgrade of the world-leading radar system that monitors Australia’s northern waters will enable it to detect smaller vessels such as <b>asylum</b> seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne and Defence Minister Marise Payne will today announce <span class="companylink">BAE Systems Australia</span> will undertake the improvements to the Jindalee Operational Radar Network, which detects and tracks air and sea targets.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The state-of-the-art network of radar stations was designed to watch for big warships, but the upgrade will make it more sensitive to smaller craft.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of the 200 new jobs created by the project will be at Adelaide’s JORN co-ordination centre, which controls receivers in remote WA, Queensland and the Northern Territory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 40 positions at WA’s Laverton radar station will be maintained, with the 10-year upgrade to extend the radar’s life span to beyond 2040.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were questions raised over the radar system’s ability to spot individual wooden-hulled <b>asylum</b> seeker boats in 2010 after the Christmas Island <b>boat</b> tragedy, which killed 48 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Payne said the radar and infrastructure upgrade would ensure the Australian Defence Force remained well-equipped with a horizon surveillance capability unmatched by any other country.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SLOW DOWN THE IMMIGRATION INTAKE WHILE WE SORT OUT THE INEVITABLE PROBLEMS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CHRIS MITCHELL </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1236 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration has been a hot-button issue in elections around the world since Britain’s Brexit vote in 2016, but reaction to a speech by former prime minister Tony ­Abbott to the Sydney Institute on February 20 suggests many in the media do not trust Australians to discuss immigration at all, let alone debate the make-up of the intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott’s speech was slapped down by Treasurer Scott Morrison, who said today’s intake was the same as it was in the days when Abbott was PM and Morrison was immigration minister. Yet Abbott made many good points. He did not really discuss in detail the ­racial and religious aspects of immigration, concentrating on outer urban overcrowding, transport difficulties and the cost to states of catering to increased population.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The usual media suspects swung into action. <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> ran pieces by Jessica Irvine on February 25 and NSW Young Liberals president Harry Stutchbury on February 21 essentially disputing Abbott’s data. Guardian Australia published a piece by former Immigration Department deputy secretary Abul Rizvi on February 21 challenging the idea there was an economic downside to high ­immigration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It took until February 24 for a high-profile economist to challenge the orthodoxy: this paper’s contributing economics editor ­Judith Sloan, published “Scott Morrison part of Canberra conspiracy to keep immigration high”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She argued Treasury supported immigration to maintain GDP growth, even though in the only measure that counts, GDP growth per capita, there had been two technical recessions in the past two decades that would have been exacerbated by immigration. She cited Productivity Commission ­reports debunking the idea immigration was a solution to an ageing population and said the main economic beneficiaries of ­mig­ration were the migrants themselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A subsequent Sloan piece on February 27 belled that cat on elite Australian opinion refusing to engage with the views of ordinary Australians, including on the immigration issue. She is right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moral middle-class people like to look down their noses at the concerns of poorer Australians for whom the downside of immigration, including ethnic crime, is more immediate than for those in wealthier suburbs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Excluding a humanitarian intake, which most years has been between 11,000 and 14,000, the Hawke government lifted immigration from 54,000 in 1984 to 124,000 at its peak in 1989 after the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Howard government lifted the intake from 65,000 to 148,000. It has often been more than 170,000 in the years since former prime ­minister Kevin Rudd’s election in 2007.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To that needs to be added foreign student visas, sitting at more than 300,000 a year, and 457s, to end this month, at more than 100,000. The total is large for a country of 24 million people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No doubt immigration has ­enriched life in my 61 years. In the much longer term, there is also no doubt Australia needs to keep growing if it expects not to repeat the fate of our first inhabitants, who were too few to defend their island home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet many on the green left have been advocating lower absolute populations for decades. The green mantra “act local, think global” apparently does not extend to using our own resources to protect those of the wider world. Yet the Greens are always quick to throw out allegations of racism at anyone who links immigration rates to ethnic crime, unemployment or welfare dependency rates. They want it both ways.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott mentioned temporary work visas, such as the newly rejigged 457s, and the running down of vocational training. He is right. Why are we not training more ­apprentices but importing so many on temporary work visas?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a drive through the Red Centre last May, my first for 20 years, I was surprised at the dominance of Chinese and ­Indian workers on 457 visas at tourism properties in the Northern Territory. In the 1990s, the NT believed these were to be the first jobs for future generations of young Aborigines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Queensland, one abattoir I know of on the Sunshine Coast is in an electorate with 20 per cent youth unemployment but more than 95 per cent of its workers are on 457s. Why is this OK?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The public wants an open discussion of the social costs of immigration-related issues beyond overcrowding and jobs. Think ­African gang violence, Muslim ­unemployment and the radicalisation of young Muslims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No mainstream party will address these issues openly. They are left to One Nation and fringe groups such as the Australian Liberty Alliance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet serious books have been written about the effects of Islamic immigration in Europe. This newspaper since the September 11, 2001, World Trade Centre terror attack has been asking, “Should a tolerant society accept the ­extreme intolerance of some ­religious minorities?” Security agencies, keen to keep the door open to the families of potentially radicalising youth, are wary of further alienating young Muslims. Fair enough. But also fair enough for Australians to ask whether we need to slow rates of immigration to give arriving groups more time to assimilate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Remember our last terror ­arrest last month was of a 24-year-old Bangladeshi woman who tried to stab a man in the neck, allegedly in an Islamic State ­inspired attack, less than a fortnight after arriving in the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are also questions about which groups do best in making a successful life here. Concerns about Vietnamese immigration in the 1980s proved unfounded. ­Unemployment in the Vietnamese community is below 5 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lebanese Christian and ­Maronite communities, many of whom migrated a century ago, tend to have low unemployment rates, but Lebanese Muslims and Iraqis, most of whom arrived after the Fraser government, have been slower to adjust. Labor force participation rates among Muslim adults in the 2011 census sat at 53 per cent. Among other religious groups participation was as high as 78 per cent. Muslim unemployment sat at 12 per cent, more than double the national average.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politicians have always known the national consensus in favour of the immigration program depends on the political control governments have over it. Rudd lost control of the borders: 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers came by <b>boat</b>; 1200 drowned at sea; and Australians turned to Abbott and Operation Border Force. It is not racist to ask if the program is in our interests or needs to be finetuned or temporarily reduced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then immigration minister Chris Bowen, whose seat of ­McMahon has high numbers of immigrants including many from Islamic countries, was brave about the issue on the front page of this paper in 2012 in the context of Labor’s embrace of offshore processing. He said critics from the inner-city Greens accusing Labor of using offshore processing to appeal to the “racist and redneck” vote needed to come to his electorate to hear the views of the real multicultural Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My own view? An honest debate and temporary slowdown in the program are warranted now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the longer term, Australia needs to build bigger cities in the north. Driving up the coast from Brisbane, it is almost 9000km to the next town with one million people: Perth.I see no reason Queensland’s large coastal provincial towns, from Bundaberg to Cairns, and Darwin in the NT could not sustain that sort of population.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>tsydin : The Sydney Institute</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | nterry : Northern Territory | sydney : Sydney | uk : United Kingdom | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | eecz : European Union Countries | eurz : Europe | nswals : New South Wales | weurz : Western Europe</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020180304ee3500012</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020180304ee35000a6" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Ice accused ‘was tricked’ by girlfriend</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SALLY RAWSTHORNE, EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>474 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2018 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AN Iranian <b>refugee</b> charged with supplying a commercial quantity of the drug ice claims his pregnant girlfriend “tricked” or “pressured” him into participating in drug deals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amir Elikaie — who came to Australia by <b>boat</b> as a <b>refugee</b> in 2009 and became a citizen under the previous Labor federal government — faced Parramatta Local Court on charges relating to alleged ice deals worth $83,000.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It comes after The Daily Telegraph last week revealed three Iranians who arrived in Australia as refugees had been charged with the supply of almost 40kg of ice as part of a separate investigation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police allege Elikaie and his de facto partner Natalie Joseph — who is seven months pregnant and behind bars — are part of an extended organised criminal gang that supplies ice they obtain via mail to the Parramatta area.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a police interview after his arrest, Elikaie said his girlfriend was the plot’s mastermind and she “tricked” and “pressured” him into participating.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The couple allegedly supplied ice on four different occasions to different residential addresses across Western Sydney, receiving $14,000 each time for two initial transactions of 100g of the drug.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police claim they were paid $27,500 for each of the two subsequent transactions of 200g of ice. According to documents tendered to the court, the ice they allegedly supplied was 75 to 80 per cent pure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When police raided Joseph’s Merrylands apartment last week, they allegedly found ice, heroin, a set of digital scales and drug paraphernalia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wearing only a grey set of shorts — in which police found $4959 they allege is the proceeds of crime — Elikaie asked the arresting officers for a shirt to wear to the police station.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On lifting a T-shirt from the floor, police allegedly found two more plastic bags of ice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an interview with police after his arrest, tendered in court, Elikaie allegedly said his pregnant partner “tricked” and “pressured” him into the illegal supply of drugs and claimed to know nothing about the ice found under the shirt.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joseph applied for bail last Thursday but her application was refused. Elikaie faced Parramatta Local Court on Friday and did not apply for bail, which was formally refused. He is set to reappear on April 26.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Telegraph last week revealed three Iranian refugees were arrested for supplying commercial quantities of ice. Police will allege that Ali Maleki, his wife Yosra Rabieh and their neighbour Hossan Mohkamkar supplied almost 40kg of the deadly drug in northern Sydney over 11 months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When police raided the couple’s Asquith unit last month, they allegedly found 33kg of ice in the apartment with 2.6kg stashed in their infant daughter’s room.Police also seized $264,750, three luxury cars, a Taser and a cash-counting machine in the dramatic raid.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Wednesday, March 7</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>573 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">previews</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">movie The Counselor (2013)</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Masterpiece Movies (pay TV), 4.45pm</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The novelist Cormac McCarthy had dabbled in screenwriting previously, but The Counselor was his Hollywood play: purchased by Ridley Scott and staffed with an admiring cast of stars. From the opening scenes, where a Texan lawyer (Michael Fassbender) with drug importation clients and his fiancee-to-be (Penelope Cruz) are entangled in bed, while to the south a cocaine shipment he will invest in is being prepped in Mexico, the movie divides people from the narcotics business, positioning the latter as a kind of beast that invariably turns on the former, whose wealth and privilege is merely a delusion that they are in control. Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt enjoy the dry, morally playful dialogue, but Cameron Diaz, as a femme fatale created by the deprivations of Argentina's military regime, is horribly miscast. CM</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">pay Get Arty</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Discovery Kids, 6.45pm</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's always nice to see a series that encourages kids to get stuck into arts and crafts - especially when it's an Australian show. Parents should note, though, that this episode of Get Arty might result in them being pestered for help with such things as box cutters, a drill and a hot-glue gun. You can check out dozens more projects on the Get Arty YouTube channel at goo.gl/jJYy6c.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This Is Us</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ten, 8.30pm</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The twist in this family weepie - now in its second season - is that it follows one family across two periods of time. We follow three siblings in their 30s, and we see the childhood that made them what they are. The question implicit in the show's structure - how do they get from A to B? - provides a good dollop of narrative drive. This episode sees grown-up Randall, the adopted child, struggling with his own foster daughter, while Kate worries about her weight. Kevin injures his knee and tries to rush it to recovery, while, in the past, we see his father encouraging him to be more manly about the chickenpox. There's plenty of pop psychology and no shortage of sappiness, but it's watchable stuff; grounded and optimistic about humanity. LS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Safe Harbour</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">SBS</span>, 8.35pm</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This new drama has everything going for it: a terrific cast and an intriguing premise that speaks to one of Australia's most pressing moral problems. A group of friends on a sailing holiday come across a struggling fishing <b>boat</b> packed with <b>asylum</b> seekers on their way to Australia. After some soul searching, they decide to tow them to safety, but in the middle of the night the rope connecting the boats is cut. Years later, one of the friends, Ewen Leslie's Ryan, gets into a cab driven by Ismail (Hazem Shammas), who was on the fishing <b>boat</b> that night. There's tension of both the psychological and the what-happens-next variety. Who cut the rope? What does Ismail want? It's unrelentingly serious, as perhaps it should be. But in the first episode at least, the focus was so squarely on the ethical quandary and the construction of narrative unease, that there was little time for character development. At this point, there's not much more to these people than the moral dilemma in which they find themselves. For me, that made it hard to invest in who done what or why. LS</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>How Australia came to be so inhumane</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Robert Manne </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2542 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 March 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy is one of the most harsh in the world. Robert Manne explains how - and why - we got here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you had predicted 30 years ago that Australia would create the least <b>asylum</b> seeker-friendly institutional arrangements in the world, you would not have been believed.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1992 we introduced a system of indefinite mandatory detention for <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b>. Since that time, we have accepted the idea that certain categories of refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers can be imprisoned indefinitely; that those who are intercepted by our navy should be forcibly returned to the point of departure; that those who haven't been able to be forcibly returned should be imprisoned indefinitely on remote Pacific islands; and that those marooned on these island camps should never be allowed to settle in Australia even after several years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are two main ways of explaining this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first is what can be called analytical narrative: the creation of an historical account that shows the circumstances in which the decisions were made and how one thing led to another. I have tried my hand at one of these elsewhere in this book.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second way is to look at more general lines of explanation. I want to suggest five possibilities. These general lines of explanation are not alternatives to each other but complementary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1. Immigration absolutism</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is very common to explain the creation of Australia's uniquely harsh anti-<b>asylum</b> seeker system of border control as a partially disguised return of the old racism of the White Australia policy. This now seems to me to be mistaken. Even though there have been occasional political hiccups - Geoffrey Blainey, 1984; John Howard, 1988; Pauline Hanson Mark I, 1996; Hanson Mark II, 2016 - one of the more remarkable achievements of Australian history is the seamless transformation of white Australia into a multiracial and multicultural society since the early 1970s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is, however, another aspect of the White Australia policy that is usually overlooked: its absolutism, the almost 100-year conviction that not a single person of non-European stock should ever be permitted to settle in Australia. In my view it has been the absolutism, embedded in the so-called Australian immigration culture of control, rather than the racism of the White Australia policy that helps explain our recent policy history, now animated by a new absolutist ambition: that we should strive for a situation where not even one <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> reaches our shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2. Party politics:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Howard's curse</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is obvious that the Tampa "crisis" of August-September 2001 was the most important moment in the creation of Australia's contemporary <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies. For obvious reasons, the creation of the offshore processing centres and, even more importantly, the use of the Australian navy to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats to Indonesia was crucial for the future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What, however, is less often discussed is the way in which the prime minister, John Howard, spurned the bipartisanship over <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy offered him by Kim Beazley. During Tampa, Beazley supported every radical measure taken by the government. The only bridge too far was a bill that denied that it would be a criminal offence for a border control official to take the life of an <b>asylum</b> seeker.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Howard seized on that caveat. For the purpose of the 2001 election and in the election campaigns of 2004, 2010, 2013 and 2016 (with 2007 being the exception), the Coalition has profitably been able to accuse Labor of being weak on border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The consequence of this has been that over the past 15 years the chance of an even remotely humane reform of the system carries with it the chance of severe electoral punishment for the Labor Party. The only hope now for a return of some humanity to the policy is the willingness of a Coalition government to initiate such reform, or to offer Labor bipartisanship in trying to work together to find a less cruel and ruinous policy. I call the last 15 years of opportunistic partisan contention over <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy "Howard's curse".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">3. Bureaucratic inertia: automaticity</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The history of anti-<b>asylum</b> seeker border control policy is a history of deterrence measures. The first two that were tried - mandatory detention and temporary protection - failed, at least as measured by the absolutist standards of the immigration authorities. The second two measures introduced by the Howard government in the spring of 2001 - offshore processing and forcible turnback to point of departure - succeeded. Between 2002 and 2007, virtually no boats reached Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is interesting about this history is the force of bureaucratic inertia, the continued expansion of the system in a way that was unrelated to evidence or experience. It was clear by the second half of 2002 that the combination of offshore processing and turnback had successfully stopped the arrival of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats. It was also clear by late 2013 that the combination of offshore processing, naval turnback and Kevin Rudd's July 2013 addition of no settlement in Australia ever - which I call "Rudd's curse" - had once again successfully stopped the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet in both cases this fact had no influence in softening policy with regard to the earlier deterrent measures - mandatory detention and temporary protection - which had by now been rendered entirely redundant. The ends had been achieved by other means. The earlier means were nonetheless retained.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How is the purposelessness of this cruelty - which is presently rendering the lives of 30,000 refugees or <b>asylum</b> seekers in Australia miserable - to be explained? In his analysis of post-totalitarian Czechoslovakia, The Power of the Powerless, Vaclav Havel outlines in some detail a system that no longer serves any interest - where within the system both the relation of different measures to each other and the relation of means to ends had long been forgotten by everyone. He calls the engine that drives this system "automaticity".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the fact that no <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats now reach Australia, in essence because of the success of the turnback policy, the mandatory detention system is maintained, refugees are granted temporary visas that offer no hope of citizenship or permanent settlement; some <b>asylum</b> seekers who cannot be deported are still locked away indefinitely; refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers who have been sent to offshore processing centres are left to rot there. The reign of automaticity helps explain the purposeless cruelty of so much of the current <b>asylum</b>-seeker system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4. Groupthink</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There has been only one time in the history of the anti-<b>asylum</b> seeker border protection policy where deterrent measures were dismantled. Rudd abandoned both offshore processing and turnback, although his government retained a limited form of mandatory detention. At the time I thought this partial dismantling a risk. I now think it a mistake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The consequence of the dismantling of the two most successful dimensions of the deterrent system was the arrival between 2009 and 2013 of some 50,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers by <b>boat</b> and more than 1000 drownings. Because of this experience, a curious mindset, already present in the Howard years, came to dominate during both the Abbott and Turnbull governments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mindset suggested that if even one brick in the <b>asylum</b> seeker-deterrent system was removed, the entire building would collapse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Let one example of this strange mindset suffice. In late 2015, doctors and nurses at the Royal Children's Hospital announced that they would not return the handful of gravely damaged children under their care to a detention centre in Melbourne. The Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, responded by saying that the result of their irresponsible behaviour would be naval officers pulling the bodies of dead children from the ocean. The minister apparently sincerely believed that freeing a few children from detention in Melbourne would send an international signal to the people smugglers that would see a return of the boats and the drownings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was telling evidence of how far by now officials in Canberra have lost touch with reality. Officials now believe that one act of human decency will lead to an armada of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats setting out for Australia. One reason for the purposeless cruelty of the current <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy is, then, the severe case of groupthink - the willingness of intelligent people to still their critical capacities in the interest of conformity - that now afflicts Canberra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5. The banality of evil</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At present more than 2000 men, women and children are slowly being destroyed in body and spirit. Some are being destroyed because they have been marooned on Nauru and Manus Island for two years or more. A small number of refugees or <b>asylum</b> seekers have been imprisoned for several years in Australia because of the existence of an adverse ASIO file, or because Iran will not accept involuntary repatriation. Among the families of those who were brought from Nauru to Australia for medical treatment, 300 now live in daily, crippling fear of return.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am certain that the Immigration and Defence officials who are responsible for administering the policy are not sadists. There is thus something further about our willingness to inflict such cruelty that needs to be explained.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most important idea in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem is the banality of evil. The idea is usually misunderstood. In essence what Arendt tried to explain was how evil acts might be perpetrated by conventional individuals because of their blindness, their loss of the capacity to see what it was that they were doing. Arendt's idea helped explain how the atmosphere created within Nazi Germany allowed the most extreme of all state-sponsored acts of political evil to appear to a conventional character like Eichmann to be normal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The extreme context from which this idea emerged does not mean that the concept of the banality of evil cannot illuminate far smaller matters. A detailed moral history of Australia's <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy since the introduction of mandatory detention in 1992 has not yet been written. What it would reveal is the process whereby the arteries of the nation gradually hardened; how as a nation we gradually lost the capacity to see the horror of what it was that we were willing to do to innocent fellow human beings who had fled in fear and sought our help.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In May 2016, an inmate on Nauru set himself on fire and died. Dutton argued in response that people self-immolate so they can get to Australia. It took 30 years of brutal behaviour for a remark like this to be possible and for Australians not to notice how truly remarkable was the minister's brutality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Postscript</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shortly after this analysis was written in 2016, the Turnbull government announced that a deal had been struck with the Obama administration whereby up to 1250 refugees on Nauru and Manus Island would be settled in the United States. Within the logic of Canberra groupthink - remove one brick and the house will fall down - it was assumed that a signal had been sent that would very likely revive the people-smuggling trade. Accordingly, Malcolm Turnbull mobilised new naval forces in the Indian Ocean to intercept and repel the anticipated armada of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats set sail. This ought to have caused a thorough re-evaluation of <b>refugee</b> policy. As it happened, no policy reconsideration occurred. The <b>refugee</b> groupthink was by now so deeply embedded in the minds of Canberra politicians and public servants that contradictory evidence from the real world was very effectively repelled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even after the announcement of the Obama-Turnbull deal, New Zealand's more modest offer of 150 <b>refugee</b> places continued to be refused. Irrationally, the government clung to their belief that the New Zealand offer would inevitably lead to the revival of the people-smuggling trade. The automaticity of policy prevailed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was also notable that the Labor Party failed to challenge the by now redundant government position. Once more, the reason is straightforward. It feared that if Shorten Labor announced its willingness to settle any of 2000 refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers we had sent to Nauru and Manus Island in Australia, its supposed weakness on border security would be ruthlessly exploited by the Turnbull (or Dutton?) Coalition. Both "Howard's curse" - the full bipartisanship of cruelty - and "Rudd's curse" - not even one of the refugees who had been despatched to Nauru and Manus Island since 2012 must ever be allowed to settle in Australia - remain firmly (and tragically) in place.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As everyone knows, shortly after assuming office, the new US President, Donald Trump, spoke to Turnbull by phone. Not long after, the transcript of the Trump-Turnbull conversation was leaked to The <span class="companylink">Washington Post</span>. Trump described the Obama offer as "dumb". Nonetheless, Trump grudgingly agreed to honour this "dumb" deal. When Turnbull explained the absolutism of Australia's policy to Trump - the total ban on settling even one <b>asylum</b> seeker who reached our shores by <b>boat</b> - the US President was both somewhat taken aback and mightily impressed. Here was a country whose <b>refugee</b> policy was even nastier than the one</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">he supported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull helpfully informed Trump that as long as US officials conducted interviews with at least some <b>asylum</b> seekers on Nauru and Manus Island, even if none were settled, the US would have fulfilled its side of the bargain. A full year after Turnbull announced the Obama deal, a mere 50 refugees of the supposed 1250 from Nauru and Manus Island have been accepted for settlement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Manus Island and Nauru, most of the refugees have by now been marooned for three or four years. As the American dream has gradually faded, they are now in an even more hopeless situation than before. Irrefutable evidence of their despair has emerged - for example, <span class="companylink">The Guardian</span>'s publication of the scarifying case notes of social workers on Nauru. The public did not give a damn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> acts of self-harm and even suicide are now routinely condemned as childish moral blackmail. Cold government indifference to the unspeakable pain that its policies have inflicted is now widely praised as politically wise and even courageous. Evildoing has come to seem truly banal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was left to the Port Moresby Supreme Court to try to teach Australia a legal and moral lesson. According to the court, the indefinite imprisonment of innocent people in Papua New Guinea is unlawful. As a result of this decision, the detention centre on Manus Island had to close. When it finally did, its 600 inmates were so fearful of what might become of them if they were forced to live on Manus Island unprotected that they refused to leave the detention centre. To force them out, food, power, medical supplies and water were cut off. The inmates dug</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">wells so they could remain inside their prison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those wells ought to remain forever in our nation's collective memory, as a symbol of the inhumanity to which our <b>refugee</b> policy has descended.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is an edited extract of Robert Manne's essay "How We Came to Be So Cruel" from his new book</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Borrowed Time, published this week by Black Inc, $34.99.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>McCormack backs immigration level despite call for cut</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>David Crowe </td></tr>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack has rebuffed Tony Abbott's call for a cut to immigration and used one of his first interviews in his new position to praise the "rewarding experience" of welcoming new citizens.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a break with the former prime minister, Mr McCormack insisted the government's immigration policies were "right" on their current settings, including a migrant intake backed by border protection policies to discourage <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr McCormack marked his first week in the role to signal a new fight to win back voters to the Nationals and differentiate the party from the Liberals, after polling that shows the Coalition has lost voters outside the capital cities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also told the Herald he rejected the views he expressed in a newspaper column 25 years ago about "sordid homosexuality" and apologised for the hurt he had caused.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott last month called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to move the migrant intake "substantially down" to 110,000 a year, compared with a planned intake of about 190,000, until infrastructure could cope with the growth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Mr Abbott's move heeds the fears of One Nation voters who have drifted from the Coalition, the new Nationals leader gave it no support but argued that Australians being drawn to the minor parties should return to the Nationals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One of my proudest moments, or my rewarding experiences as a local member, is to go to citizenship ceremonies where people from all countries on the earth take that oath and declare themselves citizens," Mr McCormack said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Many of them are coming from war-torn countries, many of them are absolutely thankful for the new opportunity and the new start in life they've been given, and they want to give back."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr McCormack, whose seat of Riverina includes the city of Wagga Wagga, said the area took in 55 Yazidi families in recent months to help them after they escaped the Syrian conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Wagga Wagga opened their arms to these people," he said. "Maybe, once upon a time, it would have been questioned, but not now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think our immigration policies are right - how we have them at the moment." He said Immigration Minister Peter Dutton was doing an "amazing job" of preventing <b>boat</b> arrivals that undermined the immigration system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Nationals, in a struggle to recover from weeks of scandal over former leader Barnaby Joyce, need to win back voters by the next election given Newspoll results show the Coalition's primary vote has fallen from 44 to 35 per cent outside the five major capital cities since the July 2016 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr McCormack said his message was "stick with the Nationals because we are inside the tent" and could get outcomes in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's all well and good for other minor parties, for independents to say that they're going to change and influence things, but it comes down to pure arithmetic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When you're inside the tent, around the ministerial table, actually making decisions, actually influencing outcomes - that is when you can get delivery. And the Nationals have done that."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He cited government spending on roads, mobile phone towers and water as well as the $10 billion inland rail line as proof the Nationals could deliver.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Mr McCormack has apologised in the past for writing his 1993 newspaper column on the "sordid behaviour" of gay Australians, he restated the apology upon his ascension to the leadership. "I changed my mind back then, having had it drawn to my attention that it was way over the top, that words hurt and the hurt lasts," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Having had a number of people with either gay children or being gay themselves who came in to express their strong views on that topic, I apologised at the time. I apologised subsequently, I apologised before I got into Parliament, when I got into Parliament."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Hard lessons for worker in a war zone</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Born in Iran, Dorsa Nazemi-Salman learnt to navigate the corridors of Canberra. Now she negotiates with 'weapon bearers' on behalf of the Red Cross. Amos Roberts reports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'Machiavellian" is probably not a word many humanitarians would embrace, but Dorsa Nazemi-Salman says she's learnt valuable lessons from the Renaissance diplomat, whose name is a byword for treachery and cunning.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They're lessons she applies every day in her work for the <span class="companylink">International Committee of the Red Cross</span> in South Sudan, where a copy of Machiavelli's The Prince sits at her bedside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This 38-year-old humanitarian from Perth isn't plotting any cynical or unscrupulous power plays, but she needs to get inside the heads of those who might be. Otherwise, she says, she can't manoeuvre her team safely around the frontlines of South Sudan's brutal, unpredictable civil war, trying to save lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Machiavelli's insight into how a leader should possess or manage his state is all about the balance of power and influence … And in many ways a humanitarian's world is also about power and influence. I don't have power, but the authorities do. I have influence ... so how do I bring these two together?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">South Sudan is not for the faint-hearted - and neither is the <span class="companylink">International Committee of the Red Cross</span>, or <span class="companylink">ICRC</span>. Fortunately for both, as I discovered during the fortnight I spent shadowing her for Dateline, Dorsa is anything but.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Growing up in Iran, she was the only girl playing street soccer in her neighbourhood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was 17 when she arrived in Australia, speaking no English, but quickly caught up, eventually landing a job with the <span class="companylink">Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet</span> in Canberra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Six years ago, to her mother's chagrin, she exchanged office finery for the more practical attire of an ICRC field delegate in Uzbekistan - and hasn't looked back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of Dorsa's colleagues told me: "It's in our DNA to go anywhere, any time", and her CV is certainly proof of this. The <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> operates in 80 different conflict zones around the world, and Dorsa arrived in South Sudan last year after postings that included Afghanistan and Nigeria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">South Sudan was supposed to be a good news story for humanitarians, but that's not how things have worked out. The world's newest nation, in 2011 it celebrated its independence from Khartoum after decades of civil war, thanks in part to a tireless campaign by sympathetic Western activists, including actor George Clooney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">US president George W. Bush had been happy to support the struggle of the beleaguered Christian south against the Muslim north - and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is rarely seen without the stetson he was given by his Texan patron.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the end of 2013, South Sudan was plunged into its own civil war, after a power struggle between Kiir and his vice-president exploded into a bloody tribal conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since then, things have gone from terrible to catastrophic. Fighting has engulfed the whole country, and the original battlelines and alliances have splintered, with dozens of armed groups battling one another for power, territory and sometimes just cattle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">United Nations reports on South Sudan are a litany of heart-breaking statistics. A third of the population has been displaced internally or is living in <b>refugee</b> camps outside the country. Forty-five per cent of those who remain need humanitarian assistance; 1.5 million people are on the brink of famine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is where Dorsa has chosen to work. It's a decision that weighs heavily on her family, for whom one particularly scary statistic stands out - South Sudan is now the most dangerous place in the world for humanitarian workers. Twenty-eight were killed there last year, including a Red Cross driver.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dorsa's colleagues planted a guava tree in the driver's memory in the fortified compound that's now her home. She's the Red Cross sub-delegate responsible for what was the state of Jonglei (both the government and the rebels have redrawn state boundaries, so the <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> works with the old divisions), one of the most volatile regions in South Sudan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Outside of Jonglei's capital, Bor, there's no phone signal and no roads. Dorsa and her staff travel everywhere by air, and in the wet season they're sometimes stranded at muddy landing strips. In Bor, the Red Cross compound needs to be self-sufficient; there's no mains electricity or running water in town.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I've been in some remote places but ... we're the only four-storey building in town and we're surrounded by mud huts. It's completely dark at night."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even with an 8pm curfew, barricaded behind walls topped with razor wire, Dorsa knows they're never truly safe. In 2016, aid workers at a residential compound in the capital, Juba, were raped by marauding government soldiers. Last year, three NGO compounds in Bor were attacked and robbed. Dorsa is responsible for the dozen or so staff sleeping under her roof, and she wakes in the middle of every night to check in with the security guards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is a huge burden on your shoulder and it keeps you - well, it certainly keeps me awake at night. I have learned to survive on very little sleep."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dorsa and her colleagues need to take risks that others don't, because of the unique mandate of the <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> - helping victims of armed conflict. It doesn't matter if they're civilians or soldiers, and it certainly doesn't matter what side they're from. The basic template for the <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> was set during its origin story.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Swiss businessman Henri Dunant witnessed the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in 1859, he was horrified by the suffering of wounded soldiers left on the battlefield. He organised a massive relief effort by talking the local population into caring for the casualties of both sides, without discrimination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The book he later wrote about this experience called for the formation of voluntary national relief organisations to nurse wounded soldiers, and advocated international treaties to guarantee the neutrality and protection of both the wounded and medics. Soon after, the <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> was born - along with its crucial role as guardian of international humanitarian law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 150 years and three Nobel peace prizes later, in a world where warfare between states has largely been supplanted by fighting that involves so-called "non-state actors" (there are 6000 different armed groups in Syria alone), there's never been a greater need for a neutral, independent and impartial player on the frontlines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Jonglei, that would be Dorsa - although on a hot, cloudless morning in early December, her own greatest need is caffeine. She's trying to balance two coffee plungers as she gingerly climbs aboard an <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> <b>boat</b> on the Bahr al-Zaraf, a tributary of the White Nile. It's going to be a three-hour trip downriver to the town of New Fangak, where Dorsa has an appointment with the rebel governor of this region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Getting to know civilian and military leaders from all sides of the conflict is the groundwork for much of what Dorsa does. As one of her colleagues told me, "we cultivate a relationship with weapon bearers".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trust is in short supply during a civil war, but nothing here is possible without it - and it's what keeps her safe in a country where, as Dorsa says, "you'd be quite naive to think that danger is not around the corner". In many parts of the world this means dealing with people we might think of as "the bad guys" - al-Qaeda, Islamic State, <span class="companylink">al-Shabab</span>. But the <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> doesn't see "bad guys" or "good guys", it sees people with power and influence who control access to people who need help, whether they're wounded, imprisoned, starving or in danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An astonishing array of startled birdlife comes flapping out of the reeds on the riverbank as we speed past - storks, pelicans, egrets and cranes. We frequently slow to a crawl to avoid capsizing villagers out fishing in canoes. Dorsa sometimes marvels at the contradictions of life in South Sudan: "One minute you feel peace and beauty - and the next you have to deal with communities fighting and people dying."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The governor's compound is probably not how most people would picture a rebel stronghold. Women are washing clothes in the river, a couple of bored youths in uniform cradle their AK-47s, and an old man with one leg rests under the shade of a tree. His plight is one of the reasons for Dorsa's mission today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> wants to bring a mobile prosthetics unit from Juba, because in rebel areas like this, amputees are often afraid to travel into enemy territory to get help. But Dorsa will need governor Kuo Wai to guarantee the safety of workers coming from the capital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is their first meeting, and the atmosphere is cordial in the tiny thatched hut that serves as the governor's office. He's a big fan of the Red Cross - not only does it provide life-saving food aid and medical services to his people, but many years ago he remembers a woman giving birth on an <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> plane during the civil war before independence. That long history of humanitarian assistance, stretching back decades, makes Dorsa's job here much easier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so, she asks her question: could government workers from the capital come here to help fit amputees with prosthetic limbs? She doesn't mince words: "We need to make sure that they are not going to be arrested or harmed or so on and so forth. You catch my drift."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The governor listens carefully, taking notes. He'd like to help the <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> help his people; he really would. "It is a good program for us because even in New Fangak now there are some wounded who are looking for how they can actually manage to get artificial legs. Now, bringing technicians from Juba, can we trust them? That will be the question. Yeah."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He pauses momentarily, before locking the door that Dorsa was hoping to open: "We cannot trust them."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The governor's tone is regretful but firm. His words might mark the limit of Dorsa's influence, but she didn't travel here with this one request. The meeting lasts for over three hours and Dorsa uses what influence she does have to negotiate her way past other roadblocks of suspicion and secrecy. It probably helps when she kicks me out. As she reassured the governor at the beginning of the meeting: "The <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> does what it says, but we never say what we see."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Confidentiality. Neutrality. They're Dorsa's mantra, a protective mantle when she's in the field "talking to tall, scary men", and a shield she uses (patiently, but sometimes wearily) to parry my questions. As a journalist, I have a professional responsibility to be impartial, but an instinctive resistance to secrets, and also to the idea of not taking sides, regardless of circumstances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I think about neutrality as we head back upriver towards the <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> field base, a welcome breeze providing relief from the stifling heat. It's one of the things that drove a group of French doctors to part ways from the Red Cross during the Biafran War, and form <span class="companylink">Medecins Sans Frontieres</span> (<span class="companylink">MSF</span>, or <span class="companylink">Doctors Without Borders</span>) in 1971. They chafed at what they saw as the burden of unwavering neutrality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Are there situations where you feel constrained by your neutrality?" I ask Dorsa a few days later. "Are there situations where you wish you could speak out about the things you see?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Of course, why wouldn't you? I mean I have seen some things in some of my missions where if I had verbalised them, it would have been like ... take your heart out and put it in a pot and stew it and then eat it. The memories are very fresh."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She shakes her head. Unburdening herself in public is a luxury she doesn't enjoy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There are two separate Dorsas," she says. "There is a Dorsa who has her own personal views ... But the Dorsa who is the head of sub-delegation for the <span class="companylink">International Committee of the Red Cross</span> in the former state of Jonglei does not decide ... Otherwise I will be caught in my own feelings and my own views and that's not what I'm here for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You are not here to pursue a personal moral goal ... The mission is bigger than you. It's bigger than who you are ... I'm here to be able to assist in managing some of the consequences of such conflicts, not to judge it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dorsa's mandate has strict limits - it's tough, modest and utterly pragmatic. But during the days I spend watching her set up a health clinic just a few kilometres from the frontline, co-ordinate the evacuation of casualties after a government offensive, and oversee an aerial food drop that will feed thousands of starving civilians, I realise that's precisely why it can be so effective.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">ICRC</span> doesn't recruit people who seem too idealistic, I was told. People who hope to change the world will burn out from disappointment when they realise they've spent two years on a mission somewhere and things are worse than when they arrived. Instead, study your Machiavelli and do as much good as you can in the circumstances you find yourself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When we finally return from our meeting with the rebel governor, Dorsa clambers off the <b>boat</b>, cheerily greets a gaggle of children playing by the riverside, and trudges towards her field base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Tired?" I ask.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Super tired." There's a short pause as she disappears through the gates into the dusty compound. "But satisfied."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Watch Dorsa at work on Dateline's Sunny with a Chance of Gunfire on SBS On Demand.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A new <span class="companylink">SBS</span> drama deals with the touchy issue of <b>asylum</b>-seekers not as an exercise in advocacy but as an examination of human dilemmas, writes Justin Burke</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given the hot-button subject matter of <span class="companylink">SBS</span>’s new series Safe Harbour, Glendyn Ivin did something that many in his position would shrink from in horror. When the trailer was released three months ago, he read the online comments.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There was a lot of ‘Not more of this’, ‘This is propaganda’, and the ‘Not the government telling us what to do again’,” says the Melbourne­-based director of the series which features <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When I first became involved, I was ­adamant Safe Harbour shouldn’t become an exercise in advocacy but something that ­explored a very complex topic in a more human way, warts and all. I doubt it will change anyone’s opinions on the politics of the topic, but it will hopefully invite them to consider the consequences of decisions on individuals made by both sides of the dilemma.” The four-part psychological thriller, which was screened a week ago as part of the Berlin International Film Festival’s drama program, is about a group of Australians — played by Phoebe Tonkin, Joel Jackson, Ewen Leslie, Leeanna Walsman and Jacqueline McKenzie — enjoying a picturesque sailing holiday in the waters to this country’s north.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But when they encounter a broken-down fishing <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b>-seekers trying to reach Australia, life-and-death decis­ions are required­. After initially offering help, the ­Australians find a tow rope is furtively cut in the night, leading to an immediate tragedy for one Iraqi family as well as a persistent mystery that affects all their futures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We worked hard to overcome the distance between audiences and this scenario,’’ says Ivin. “It’s easy to think: ‘If I was in that situation, I would act nobly.’ But when you are confronted in the open water and you can’t turn away — or change the channel — we would all probably act differently to how we imagine.” Ivin, whose directorial work in recent years includes Seven Types of Ambiguity, Gallipoli and Puberty Blues, says the metaphorical significance­ of the yacht was mirrored in the Brisbane filming location.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If we think of the Aussies’ yacht as Australia, they have food, water and space in abundance, surrounded by water, in contrast to the <b>asylum</b>-seekers’ <b>boat</b>,” he says. “I hadn’t shot or even spent a lot of time in Brisbane before, but when I started really looking, it was clear that this is what Australia looks like to the outside world — a place where, if you work hard, you can have a good life.” For Tonkin, 28, best known for playing a mermaid in the long-running children’s series H20: Just Add Water, it marks a return­ to acting in Australia after almost a decade in Los Angeles. Ivin says he saw the dramatic depth in the actress, who has been starring in The Vampire Diaries spin-off The Originals for the past five years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Phoebe sent this screen test from LA and I just had tears in my eyes,” he says. “She could just see her character Olivia on the page. There was so much emotion and honesty. I don’t think ­people have seen Phoebe that way.” For her part, Tonkin says playing a “pure dramatic contemporary role” rather than the “heightened” world of fantasy, was a long-held ambition. “I have been very fortunate in working solidly for 10 years in LA, but have frankly felt typecast and limited in the type of opportunities I’ve been offered,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I always knew I was capable of doing work that was more grounded and serious. Olivia has a very distinct character arc, going from a very vibrant and excited person to being ­profoundly affected by what happens on the <b>boat</b>, and its aftermath. It’s like the light in her has been dimmed.” Ivin says he was excited about casting actors­ to play the Iraqi family: Nicole ­Chamoun (Romper Stomper), Robert Rabiah (Secret City), Yazeed Daher and Hazem Shammas (Underbelly) as Ismail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are a lot of amazing Middle Eastern actors in Australia, but many prefer not to do TV work, for various reasons, including being repeatedly cast as terrorists or as cliches to get a cheap laugh,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Hazem, for example, had been doing lots of stage work in recent years. But the moment he walked in and did this screen test, I just knew it. You can look into his face and see so much complexity there.” There are few explicit references to religion or culture in the series; Ivin says the narrative is informed only by character.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Race and cultural difference — it is never part of the ­argument,” he says. “The way we approached it, if I got these two families — one Australian and one Iraqi — and swapped them around, ultimately they would be acting the same way.” But some surprising coincidences occurred in post-production. “We did ‘loop groups’, where voice actors do all the shouting and ­crying needed to build up the chorus of sound for the scenes on the <b>asylum</b>-seekers’ <b>boat</b>,” he says. “One guy in his early 20s in our group piped up and said, ‘I came to Australia on a fishing <b>boat</b> from Indonesia.’ ” Ivin tentatively showed him a rough cut of the scene to gauge his reaction. “He said the scene was exactly what it had been like in his experience, only noting that ­‘Nicole Chamoun had too much make-up on’. I had to tell him: ‘She doesn’t have any on, she is just amazing.’ “This really cool young guy, who is at univer­sity and wants to be an actor, really recontextualised what we had just done.” Ivin says it is such moments of authentic reaction from viewers that serve as his personal yardstick for judging a show’s success. “Ratings and those traditional ways of measuring success are way down the list for me,’’ he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My work might not rate as super-popular, but I know that when people watch what I make, they engage with it and remember it, and that means more to me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In the final editing of Safe Harbour, I had tears in my eyes; even though I knew every single frame of that story back to front, I was still moved by it. Hopefully that’s a good sign.” The series has already functioned as a calling­ card, with Ivin and Leslie both attached to the forthcoming <span class="companylink">BBC</span> series The Cry, currently being shot in Melbourne and Glasgow, and due to air on the ABC later this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The producers and the <span class="companylink">BBC</span> saw the first episode­ of Safe Harbour and, on the back of that, got me involved and cast Ewen as the lead — it’s a huge honour for us,” Ivin says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is it feasible in the long term to direct high-quality TV dramas and stay in this country?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have no interest in directing single episodes of long-running TV series,” Ivin says. “I’ve chosen to explore TV in a very cinematic way, but doing one Safe Harbour or Seven Types of Ambiguity per year for example, I wouldn’t be able to sustain a living, and so I do commercials and other things.” But telling quintessentially Australian stories seems to have a lock on his creative soul.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I am developing work in the US, but as far as the personal and emotional reward from doing this kind of work in Australia [is concerned], it’s fundamentally different,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Safe Harbour commences on Wednesday at 8.30pm on <span class="companylink">SBS</span>.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anoushka Shankar had no choice in the path she took, she tells Jane Cornwell . Her mother played her father Ravi Shankar’s ragas to her in the womb</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having learned to play the sitar at the knee of her maestro father­, Ravi Shankar, before going on to win six Grammy nomin­ations as the star of a plucked string instrument whose shimmering textures seem to offer a hotline to the divine, Anoushka Shankar has developed a routine that keeps her on form, aiming high, thinking about the future.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are the hours of daily practice, the yoga sessions and gym workouts, the concert diary booked two years in advance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are the peace signs she does in the bath. “Feel these calluses on my fingers,” says Shankar, 36, laughing as she reaches across the sofa in her living room, located down one end of a vast warehouse conversion in bustling east London. “When I was still on tour in India last week they were solid black lines! They’re not as rock-hard as they need to be, so I have to be careful. Whenever I’m relaxing in a nice hot bath, I’m like this …” She flops backwards, her hands forming two sets of Vs. It’s an ironically hippie-ish gesture from the younger of the two daughters born to the Bengali-Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, made heavier by his role as progenitor of the 1960s “psychedelic” sound, collaborations with Beatle George Harrison, and appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals that made him a star in the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anoushka famously didn’t meet her half-sister­, American jazz chanteuse Norah Jones, until she was 16. They’re close now. Closer, perhaps, given recent personal events, more of which later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’re here to talk about Land of Gold, Shankar’s most recent release, a 2016 concept album she will perform in Australia next week, aided by a quartet on double bass and keyboards, the reed-like Indian shehnai and a set of percussion instruments — including the ambient, wok-shaped hang — played by the work’s co-writer, Manu Delago. In turns beautiful and raw, simple and complex, with seven instrumentals and three vocal tracks featuring M.I.A, Alev Lenz and a recitation by Vanessa Redgrave (all of which will be performed instrumentally live), the album is Shankar’s response to the plight of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s a project that makes listeners sit up and pay attention. Titles such as Last Chance, <b>Boat</b> to Nowhere and Reunion trace an arc from vulnerability, fear and hope to relief and longing. Co-prod­uced by film director Joe Wright (Atonement, The Darkest Hour) — Shankar’s husband and the father­ of her two sons, Zubin, 6, and Mohan, 2 — Land of Gold is a ­cohesive work, a soundtrack to a movie being played out by the world’s dispossessed and voiceless. At its centre­ — lamenting, communing, sparkling — is the sitar, underscoring the uniting power of music.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I released this album two years ago but the issues are still so relevant,” says Shankar, who had recently given birth when the horrific images of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach after fleeing war-torn Syria with his family, were flashed around the world. “I felt overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness to alleviate the suffering and injustic­e taking place as the world looked on. But like many others I was painfully aware that it was impossible to deny my emotional connection, as a human being, as a mother.” She pauses for a beat. “What is doubly painful is the sense that, as a society, it has become even harder to talk about these issues because a fatigue has set in. There’s a normalisation of this state of affairs that feels heartbreaking. So it is good to be able to step into this music and talk to people from the stage. The lovely thing about speaking through music is that you often have people who think differently in the same room together, in a way that is increasingly rare. It’s really important to reach across those boundaries and belief systems­.” Shankar was last in Australia in 2010, performing alongside her father on his 90th birthday farewell tour (he died two years later). Their sublime interpretations of Indian classical ragas, the epic melodic forms attuned to different times of the day and featuring dazzling experiment­ation, had audiences swooning. The sense of a baton being passed was palpable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Little wonder. As Shankar writes in her 2002 biography Bapi: The Love of My Life, she was just nine years old when she began learning the sitar on a smaller instrument that the great Pandit (master) Ravi Shankar had commissioned especiall­y for her. Aged 13, her solo debut in New Delhi (at Ravi’s 75th birthday celebrations) confirmed the magic had indeed passed from guru to protegee. Father and daughter would perform together regularly when their schedules allowed. Anoushka would gasp along with everyone else at Ravi’s audacious flurries, then engage in improvisatory passages of her own.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She is one of the few women who play the sitar professionally. But she has never considered herself a pioneer. “I don’t know what the alternate experience would be, had he not been my father,” says Shankar, who grew up listening to Britpop and techno in between reading the Mahabharata and learning Indian songs and dances with her mother. “Maybe it meant people­ wouldn’t f..k with me, I don’t know. My parents were very pro-women and independ­ence. They wanted me to have my own career.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s not as if playing the sitar is banned for women in India. You see a lot of girls learning sitar at school, but then dropping off when they get to professional touring age and becoming wives and mothers instead. There’s simply no infrastructure there for so many things.” Shankar was raised in northwest London by her mother, Sukanya, a South Indian singer who had met Ravi Shankar while she was married and he was going through an acrimonious divorce, and in another relationship. Sukanya would be a single parent, and the baby, Anoushka, a ­precious secret. (“At first Ravi was not ready to accept her,” Sukanya Shankar told Britain’s The Telegraph newspaper in 2001. “I couldn’t take her anywhere because they look so alike.”) ­Ravi met Anoushka when she was three months old, then twice-yearly, clandestinely, until her ­parents wed in 1989. They moved to the beach city of Encinitas in California three years later, when Anoushka was 11.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While living in London and California, she spent winters attending English-syllabus schools in India, where her decision to take up the sitar came with the pressure of expectation; Ravi Shankar was revered across the subcontinent, even if many classical music purists disputed his penchant for fusion. It was a weight she consciously tried to ignore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I couldn’t avoid the path I took,” she has said. Her mother had played Ravi’s ragas to her in the womb. Her earliest musical memories involve­ her father practising the sitar at home. She would proved an eager, nimble-fingered student, even if she still finds the cross-legged sitting position, along with the extra-thin strings and the long wooden neck pressing against her shoulder, physically taxing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having lost his eldest child, Shubbendra, who died aged 50 in 1992, Ravi appears to have focused­ much of his attention on his beloved youngest, whom he fathered at 60. “My father told me I didn’t have to learn if I didn’t want to but there would be no cutting corners,” she says. “I was lucky I got him when he wasn’t doing all that intensive touring in the 1960s and 70s.” Norah Jones, two years Anoushka’s senior, was born towards the end of Ravi’s brief relationship with Sue Jones, a New York dancer and promoter, and grew up in Grapevine, Texas. When, aged 18, she telephoned out of the blue and introduced herself with, “This is Norah, Ravi’s daughter”, it was Anoushka who answere­d. “I knew I had a sister somewhere but I nearly fainted,” she once said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The adolescent Anoushka blossomed in California, getting top grades, acting in plays, enjoyin­g being one of few Indian students at her high school. (“It was a big part of me becoming more individualistic.”) She joined a feminist societ­y and wrote pieces for the student newspaper, her social conscience piqued by conversations overheard at her parents’ dinner parties, where artists, authors and scientists broke bread with world-class musicians including Yehudi Menuhin and her “Uncle George” Harrison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was Harrison who, with Ravi Shankar, organised­ the Concert for Bangladesh benefit in Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1971, with both men appearing in a line-up that included Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, and raised awareness as well as money for war victims turned refugees. The popular event spawned a documentary, a bestselling live album and a longstanding urban myth. That story about the crowd watching Ravi tune his sitar, then cheering wildly, thinking that was it, and wandering off? It never happened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Ah the tuning question!” Anoushka claps her hands. “If you listen to the live recording, you will hear a smattering of applause before he makes a little comment: ‘If you like the tuning, then you will like the show.’ ” There is a profound beauty to sitar music. Some morning ragas might be soundtracks to the dawning of the earth; there are evening ragas that soothe and nourish. One of the most expressive instruments anywhere, the sitar can reconnect us to our selves. “It’s definitely an instrument­ that evokes feelings of peace, spirit­uality, connectivity and love,” says Shankar, who by 20 had released three classical recordings and had her first (world music) Grammy nomination. She spoke of wanting to write film scores some day, just as her father did in the 50s for legendary Indian director Satyajit Ray.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her breakthrough album, 2005’s Rise, brought her another nomination, as did 2011’s Traveller, a work exploring links between Indian­ classical music and Spanish flamenco, and 2013’s Traces­ of You, which feat­ures vocals by Norah Jones — and was her first album following her father’s death (a subsequent album of classical ragas, Home, was released in 2015). “Traces of you linger like a teardrop, fresh upon the air,” sings Jones, crystalline and dreamy over Shankar’s plangent sitar. The video for the album’s title track depicts the sister­s in a soft light filtered through refracted glass, and was directed by Wright — whose visual­ sense influenced Land of Gold.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He constantly turned my attention back to where the story was,” Shankar says. “So when I was recording the fast sitar lines on Last Chance I was literally imagining someone running and trying to feel like I was running. To work with a producer who cared about the emotional content­ of the music was really huge.” Her husband of seven years is in the US, promoting The Darkest Hour. “He turned into a six-year-old, saying: ‘Please, please can I co-produce?’,” she says. “We sat down and had a husband-and-wife chat where I said: ‘I know as a film director you’re used to having the final say but can we be clear on whose word is final?’ ” She flashes a grin. “He said: ‘OK, but we never disagree on anything.’ Sure enough, there was a point six months in where I was like: ­‘Remember that chat?’ ” So far, so (relatively) regular. But in the weeks after our interview Shankar posts a series of cryptic tweets: “How do people stay in love? With eyes illuminated enough to close, and a heart content to rest.’’ On December 30 she tweeted a photo of herself in sun-dappled Jamaica­, Mohan on her hip, with the words: “Ending the year full of gratitude for the gifts of motherhood, creativity and connection with other souls. Even in times of pain I am grateful to be so blessed.” Early January saw her with Jones in snow-covered Brooklyn: “So happy to be staying with big sis for a few days.” On January 12 came the official announcement confirming that Shankar and Wright had ended their marriage. Amid the ensuing­ fuss, the showbiz pieces speculating on which actress Wright was dating, Shankar got on with her life: there were interviews around her (first) film score to Franz Osten’s restored 1927 silent film Shiraz, which tells the story behind­ the Taj Mahal, and which Shankar performed live in London and five Indian cities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then on February 1 another tweet, with a portrait of a pensive Shankar holding the neck of her sitar: “Like a rock, like a mountain, like the certainty that the next wave will crash upon the shore, it’s always been there,” she declared. “When I needed to scream, to cry, or to revel in my joy, it’s been my voice, always there. My baby, my axe, my lover, my heart.” Eat my dust, read the subtext.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shankar is surrounded by women who lift her up: M.I.A, the British rapper, singer and activ­ist of Sri Lankan Tamil origin whom she met on a play date with their kids, and bonded with over their respective music projects in response to the <b>refugee</b> crisis. German-Turkish troubadour Alev Lenz, who sings on the title track of Land of Gold and lives around the corner; her gang of non-starry girlfriends, some of whom I met when I bumped into Shankar a few days later at an art exhibition at the Barbican.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fiercely pro-women, Shankar has been vocal in her support of campaigns including One ­Billion Rising, the movement that evolved in response to the horrific 2011 gang rape of stud­ent Jyoti Singh Pandey on a Delhi bus and revealed­ the scale of sexual violence against women in India. She has taken part in panel discussions and hosted radio shows about gender equality; she views the current #MeToo movement as a hugely positive force.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s like a collective global dam of feminine experience has burst,” she says. “I hope it means that the boundary has moved. Often with change there’s a push-and-pull process that is two steps forward, one step back, and I think that’s how progress goes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“After One Billion Rising, suddenly issues­ of sexual violence and women’s experience were being discussed on a global scale. So this feels like a second spike of something I never thought would happen twice in my lifetime. It’s as if every woman is part of this feeling where they want to have their own story validated and told. The fact that there’s this groundswell of people reinforcing that you can actually say, ‘No, not any more’, is incredible.” Believing that being an artist is an extension of being human, Shankar is compelled to use her platform to speak out, to make a difference, to sustain her father’s vision that mus­ic can promote peace and contribute to the world. “Though my father­ is no longer here, I still get to interact with him through the music. I’m blessed in that way; not many people are so fortun­ate. In so many ways, I am blessed.”Anoushka Shankar plays at WOMADelaide on Friday, in Sydney on March 11 and in Melbourne on March 13.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A SINGLE <span class="companylink">Nike</span> sneaker allegedly lost in a carpark scuffle over a drug deal has led to a Cinderella ending for police investigating a major ice ring allegedly involving Iranian refugees.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Officers found the right-footed black-and-white shoe in the Coles carpark at Asquith along with a torn plastic bag containing methamphetamine and a knitted skull cap. Each contain the DNA of Ali Maleki, police allege in a fact sheet to be tendered to court.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police allege the items were discarded after Maleki and an accomplice were ambushed by three other men during a drug deal last August captured on CCTV and dashcam footage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police will tell the court Maleki was later seen exiting his home in a unit complex adjoining the carpark wearing just one shoe — a matching <span class="companylink">Nike</span> — on his left foot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As revealed in The Daily Telegraph yesterday Maleki and his wife Yosra Rabieh, who both fled to Australia by <b>boat</b> in 2013, are now facing drug trafficking charges after police raided their home and allegedly found over 2kg of ice hidden in their pre-school aged daughter’s bedroom cupboard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They also allegedly recovered another 30kg of ice worth a total of $16.5 million and $264,000 in cash.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another Iranian <b>refugee</b>, Hassan Mohkamkar, who also lived at the same block of units in Bouvardia St, has been charged with accessory after the fact to supplying drugs in connection with the raid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Officers became aware of the Iranian refugees after a low-level dealer busted in Waterloo last March referred to his supplier as the driver or “Beirut”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police allege that in the botched drug deal last August Maleki and his would-be buyer got into a fight when the Iranian got into his purchaser’s white Holden Cruze to complete the deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fight spilt out into the carpark, with Maleki allegedly being put in a headlock and almost 1kg of ice falling onto the asphalt from the <span class="companylink">Aldi</span> shopping bag police allege he used to carry it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During the fight, a second bag of ice was thrown over an adjacent fence into Maleki’s backyard, the facts allege. His wife and Mohkamkar later went to look for the bag with a torch, police allege.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A seemingly normal couple, Ali Maleki and Yosra Rabieh — who came from Iran as refugees in May 2014 — raised their two daughters, aged one and three, in the northern Sydney unit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A neighbour of the family, Iman Aziminejad, told The Daily Telegraph the two little girls had gone to stay with Maleki’s brother.Since last week’s raid and subsequent arrests the couple’s car spaces have been empty after the luxury Lexus and <span class="companylink">Mercedes-Benz</span> cars they drove were seized by police.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Linda Kow has only made a single trip back to her Cambodian homeland since arriving in Australia by <b>boat</b> as a <b>refugee</b> at the age of five in 1979.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once was enough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was confronting, really confronting,’’ the now chief financial officer of the booming Costa fruit and vegetable business says in her first media interview.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Obviously lots of people have been to Cambodia. The killing fields was the worst, and the tree where they bashed the babies’ heads. I was six months old when we left so that would have been us if we had not fled. I found that very confronting. The prison where they had pictures of people was really confronting because they looked just like my family. So I found that really hard. I would recommend that everyone visits there just to understand what happened.’’ The Kow family were actually boatpeople twice — first they fled the murderous Cambodian regime of Pol Pot to Vietnam. From there they moved to Malaysia, ­before being sponsored into ­Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Australia gave me a chance and it gave me an education, which is a lot to be grateful for,’’ Kow says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fast forward more than three decades, and the former Deloitte partner and <span class="companylink">Village Roadshow</span> executive is now celebrating five years in partnership with her business mentor and good friend Harry Debney, the CEO of Costa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Together they have piloted a business that has so far proven to be one of the most successful floats in recent Australian corporate history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Costa shares were issued at $2.25 a share in July 2015. They are now trading at $6.17, after closing before Christmas as high as $6.69.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At its AGM in November, Costa — which is chaired by former long-serving Toll Holdings chief financial officer Neil Chatfield — upgraded its full-year earnings growth guidance to around 20 per cent, a substantial increase on the 10 per cent profit growth forecast it provided at its full-year results in August.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Debney believes there is plenty of growth left in Costa, underpinned by its long-term joint venture with <span class="companylink">Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management</span>, which is now driving the growth of its core fruit and vegetable portfolio and its new avocado business.  Costa has transformed the way fruit and vegetables are farmed by growing them in glasshouses and gal­vanised steel tunnels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Debney says Kow has been fundamental to the company’s success, even if there were some members of the senior management team who raised their eyebrows when she was appointed to the CFO role in September 2012, only 18 months after joining the business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have taken a lot of risks. I think I have had a bit of a track record of finding the right people and nurturing the right talent. I probably appoint people a bit earlier than they otherwise would have been appointed. Linda as CFO was one of those calculated risks,’’ Debney says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Some of the old timers I’m sure tested her. I won’t mention names. And not everyone in the senior team would have welcomed Linda with open arms from day one. But they all knew I had appointed her and she would be given every chance to succeed. Maybe a couple of people sat back and folded their arms and said ‘Let’s see what happens here’. No one actively discriminated. But she won their respect. That is a big tick.” Debney admits he has been let down before by taking risks on key personnel. “But put it this way, I have had more let-downs from taking experienced people who have all the right credentials and ostensibly should be highly successful and haven’t worked. I prefer to take people a little bit early who have the right value set and the right approach. And a lot of talent. Linda’s work ethic is outstanding,’’ he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two started working together at the Pratt family’s Visy Group in 2001 when Debney was running the business and its patriarch Richard Pratt was still alive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kow says Debney helped her morph from being an accountant to a broader business person with a strategic focus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The final part of Debney’s 24-year career at Visy, including eight years as CEO, was marred by the sensational price-fixing scandal in the $2bn cardboard box industry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Debney took personal responsibility for Visy’s breaches of the Trade Practices Act and resigned in 2007 as CEO. Kow had a ringside seat to watch the drama engulf her mentor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I worked with Harry at that point in time and was involved with that piece of work,’’ she says.“I obviously know Harry well and respect him. And that is how I thought about that. I don’t pay a lot of attention to the noise. When you know someone as an individual, that is what matters.”</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Richard Jinman </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">INTERVIEW</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai Weiwei looks tired. Sitting alone at a long wooden bench in the vast, subterranean studio complex in central Berlin that serves as the headquarters of his global art empire, he runs a hand slowly over his closely cropped scalp.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He nods as I approach and offers a soft handshake. One of the studio's small army of smart young factotums is sent to fetch green tea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the age of 60, Ai is a certified art superstar. He ranks alongside - some would say above - fellow A-listers such as Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons in terms of his status and pulling power. As a mainstream figure with a massive following on social media he is known as the man who smashed a Han dynasty urn in the name of art and released a parody video of the Korean pop hit Gangnam Style that made "dad dancing" seem almost subversive. He designed Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium then disavowed it and filled Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall with 100 million hand-painted ceramic sunflower seeds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But unlike most of his cashed-up peers in the contemporary art world Ai is also an activist, dissident and political exile. His fame is built as much on his willingness to confront China's rulers and demand artistic, political and personal freedoms, as his undeniably provocative art.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That reputation has come at a high price. He was jailed for three months without charge and was beaten savagely by police. Many of his friends and collaborators are in jail. In 2015, the Chinese authorities returned his confiscated passport and declared him free to travel, but he says it is unlikely that he, his partner Wang Fen and their young son Ai Lao, will live in their homeland in the foreseeable future. "If there was no danger I would," he says softly. "But there is danger so I will not do it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The beating was triggered by his investigation of the 2009 Sichuan earthquake. By publishing the names of thousands of children killed in the disaster, reportedly because of the substandard construction of school buildings, he made an enemy of the Chinese government. A punch to the head from police who broke into his hotel room left him with a cerebral haemorrhage. Doctors stopped the bleeding and saved his life, but he says he still suffers memory loss and fatigue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His enervated mood may also be explained by the schematics and photographs plastered on the brick walls of one of the cavernous spaces in his studio, a former brewery located a few streets north of Alexanderplatz. There are plans for shows in cities ranging from Dusseldorf to St Louis and Sao Paulo. I count at least eight although an assistant assures me "these are just some of them".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As well as being one of the most visible artists in the world, Ai also finds time to lecture at Berlin's University of the Arts (the offer of a three-year professorship was one reason he relocated to the German capital shortly after his passport was returned). He also travels extensively promoting his art and Human Flow, his recently released documentary about the global <b>refugee</b> crisis. In March, he will be in Sydney to discuss both the film and the installation on Cockatoo Island of his largest work to date, Law of the Journey. The 70-metre inflatable <b>boat</b> containing 258 <b>refugee</b> figures will be the centrepiece of the 2018 Sydney Biennale.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I had heard that his interest in refugees stemmed from a holiday he took to the Greek island of Lesbos. He and his son stumbled across a <b>refugee boat</b> that had arrived on the beach and the sight of exhausted, distressed women and children left him profoundly shocked. Yes, he says, but that wasn't the start of it. In 2014, a year before the Lesbos trip, an Iraqi foundation asked him to curate a collection of writing and drawings made by refugees in three Iraqi camps for an exhibition at the Iraqi pavilion at the Venice Biennale.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I saw the images and was in shock," he says. "They looked like children's drawings, but they're not. They were all about their memories of the killing."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai wanted to learn more about the people who had made the drawings. At the time he was still unable to leave China, so he sent two of his assistants to conduct video interviews. Footage from those trips can be seen at the very start of Human Flow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His deep engagement with the <b>refugee</b> crisis illustrates the multifaceted nature of his work. Art is at its core - he wrapped the stone columns of Berlin's Konzerthaus with 14,000 salvaged <b>refugee</b> life vests for a piece unveiled in 2016, for example - but his installations, sculptures and photographs are also polemics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Likewise Human Flow isn't a truly dispassionate documentary; it's a plea for a more humane approach to the treatment of the world's 65 million refugees. He has intervened directly in the crisis by distributing thousands of solar-powered lights to refugees in camps on the Greek islands. And he is quite willing to use his status as an artist to further his aims as an activist. In 2016, for example, he closed down his exhibition in Copenhagen in protest at a new law that allowed Danish authorities to seize valuables from <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I used to be very regional," he says referring to his work in China. "That made me bored because the essential ideas are so elementary - freedom of speech or human rights and justice. There's not much to argue about. But to see [injustice] in the global sense in dealing with the future of humans, that's a real challenge."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Watching countries close their borders to refugees and hearing politicians whip up anti-migrant sentiment to secure votes "frustrates" him, he says. "They're [refugees] not beggars. They come here with a strong sense of dignity. They want their children to have some protection. They have their history and their language, but sadly they've been pushed out."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says his own childhood as the son of a political dissident - his father, the poet Ai Qing, was denounced during the Cultural Revolution and the family spent 20 years in labour camps - makes him naturally empathetic to the plight of displaced people. "We lived in a hole, a ditch with branches on top for five years," he says without emotion. "Every day my father was insulted by people. They wanted him to admit to a crime he had never committed."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai says he hasn't done a great deal of research into Australia's treatment of refugees, but he is aware of the controversy surrounding the country's offshore processing centres. "I know they're [the Australian government] very restrictive and they treat refugees very badly on the island of Nauru," he says. "And the attitude of the government is really bad, because Australia is also a migrant nation ... it's like the United States. But it has become so conservative, so narrow-minded. You cannot imagine how humans would be like this ..."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some say his determination to highlight injustice causes him to go too far at times. When he asked celebrities at a Berlin fundraiser to wrap themselves in the gold emergency blankets handed to refugees who arrive on European beaches, one commentator called the stunt "obscene". There was even more outrage when Ai was photographed lying face down on a beach in Lesbos in an attempt to recreate the shocking 2015 image of the drowned Syrian child Alan Kurdi.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Does he regret it? Not a bit. "I was asked to pose that photo [by an Indian magazine] and I said yes. For me there is not any kind of problem. Artists use all kinds of ways to bring up the social conscience. There is so much sentiment to that photo [of Kurdi] because every day a child drowns. His brother could have been 100 metres away also drowned and nobody would talk about his brother. Was it that he was dressed more like a white boy? A lot of people die, so I don't understand that [controversy]."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Should anything be off limits in the pursuit of art? "No. Not within the law," he says impassively. "Most art works push the moral boundaries and new aesthetics are always questioning what already exists. Otherwise it's not relevant. Why do it?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Considering the dizzying scale and complexity of his endeavours it comes as a shock to learn that his family once considered him a bit of a loser. When he returned to China in 1993 after more than a decade in America, his mother made it clear her son was a bitter disappointment. "She said 'you're almost 40 years old and you've done nothing. Your life is wasted. You went to the United States for 12 years and you don't have an American passport. You never graduated'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her approbation did the trick. Ai, whose former occupations included babysitter, card player and sketch artist, began to focus seriously on his art. He also founded a successful architecture practice - "I did 60 projects, all built," he says proudly - whose work culminated in the design of Beijing "Bird's Nest" stadium.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He credits the internet as the real reason he became famous. In 2005, the Chinese social media website <span class="companylink">Sina Weibo</span> asked him to start blogging. Ai had never used a computer and couldn't type, but the company organised a secretary. The first sentence took two days to formulate, he says, but the medium unlocked something inside him. Articles about art and architecture soon gave way to scathing social commentary and criticism of government policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I wrote three blogs a day and they would often be reposted 200,000 times," he recalls. "I thought, 'this is amazing'. In a totally censored nation nobody ever had a voice like this. I could start a revolution."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The same thought must have occurred to China's communist rulers who shut down his blog and banned his name as a search term. It was too late; the genie was out of the bottle. Ai had become a symbol of hope for millions of people, inside and outside of China, who longed for greater freedom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I ask him what might have happened if he hadn't started blogging, if he had never become famous. He smiles for the first time in our conversation. "If there was no internet I might still be a private person collecting antiques and editing books," he says. "I like books. Or I might be playing cards with my brother. I like to play cards."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai Weiwei will give the Biennale of Sydney keynote address at the Sydney Opera House on March 15 at 6pm. The address will be followed by the Sydney premiere of his documentary Human Flow at 8.30pm. Ai Weiwei's installation Law of the Journey will be at Cockatoo Island from March 16 to June 11.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TROY BRAMSTON SENIOR WRITER, EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>503 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s left faction will propose ­reforms to increase internal democracy at the party’s national conference, creating a headache for Bill Shorten, who has not supported any significant changes to loosen the faction and union grip over the party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It comes as Kevin Rudd took a veiled swipe at the Opposition Leader at a forum in Melbourne last week for failing to listen to party members wanting demo­crat­isation and arguing that Labor “only has a future” if it moved away from factional control.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The NSW Labor left has circulated a pledge that delegates to the national conference are being ­encouraged to sign, which will commit them to voting for reforms that give members a greater say in the party and will foster accountability and transparency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pledge calls for rank-and-file members to have “more rights” and backs the direct election of state presidents and vice-­presidents, rather than by conferences dominated by union blocs. Many in the left also want party members to vote directly to pre­select Senate candidates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an interview played on ABC radio on Tuesday but recorded last week, former prime minister Mr Rudd renewed his call for reforms to Labor’s structure and warned that the “apparatchik class” posed a threat to the party’s future ­viability. “The Australian Labor Party only has a future if it rebirths itself in a post-factional world which rediscovers its intrinsically good values for the betterment of human­kind,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The problem with both of our political parties’ established leaderships is I don’t think they ­either can hear or want to hear that, and the pressure from the ground up for renewal is huge … unless the renewal is given full expression institution(ally) then another institution or sets of institutions — political institutions, parties and movements — will be created.” Mr Rudd, who did not exempt the Coalition from his critique, said Western democracies were in “crisis”, voters’ faith in parties and institutions was declining and politics had become infiltrated by operatives who practised politics like it was “a game” and “a craft ­devoid of belief”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The leadership of Labor’s nat­ional left faction meet in Sydney this weekend to begin planning for the national conference in July. Parliamentarians, union leaders and officials will focus on developing policy priorities and proposals for structural reform.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The NSW left is eager to see the party increase taxes on the wealthy, boost union power in workplaces and abandon support for offshore processing of refugees and <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Forcing another showdown on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, as at the party’s 2015 conference, does not have universal support in the Victorian left, which does not want to embarrass Mr Shorten.The left is expected to boost its overall numbers at the national conference given the incorporation of 150 local delegates, meaning it could emerge with a majority of delegates for the first time since the late 1970s.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor left ignites class warfare debate</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TROY BRAMSTON SENIOR WRITER, EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>529 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s left faction is pushing to increase taxes on the wealthy, boost union power in workplaces and abandon support for offshore processing of refugees and <b>boat</b> turn-backs in the lead-up to the party’s national conference in July.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The NSW left faction is urging delegates to sign a pledge that would see radical changes in policy across the board, embrace of the politics of envy and class warfare, and reopen a difficult internal debate on <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ahead of statewide rank-and-file ballots to select 47 delegates to the party’s conference in Adelaide, the left faction has made tackling economic, social and industrial inequality its primary focus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pledge seeks to bind delegates to support conference proposals to “decrease inequality by increasing taxes on the wealthy and funding a public sector that can deliver decent services”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Labor and the <span class="companylink">ACTU</span> abandon support for workplace reforms legislated by the Rudd-Gillard governments, the left wants delegates to support measures to “implement the <span class="companylink">ACTU</span>’s ‘Change the Rules’ agenda” that seeks to empower unions as membership continues to plummet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In July 2015, Labor’s national conference only narrowly backed Bill Shorten’s position that the party support turning back boats of <b>asylum</b>-seekers to deny them making landfall on the Australian mainland when it was safe to do so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The highly charged and emotional debate split the left faction and saw frontbencher Anthony Albanese, a leadership challenger to Mr Shorten, break ranks with his leader and vote to oppose turn-backs. Mr Albanese is a leading member of the NSW left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The candidate pledge asks conference delegates to “vote to change ALP policy on ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers” and support “an immediate end to the <b>boat</b> turn-backs policy”, guaranteeing another divisive clash between factions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These policies would overturn aspects of the party’s existing platform and shift the party further left. Resolutions adopted by conferences are meant to be binding on the parliamentary leadership as they are regarded as the party’s “supreme policymaking forum”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pledge was drafted and endorsed by the leadership of the NSW left and circulated to candidates contesting online rank-and-file ballots within each federal electorate in the state.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The NSW left is also seeking to have the party enshrine in its ­platform a commitment to “close the gender pay gap” and formally adopt a policy to legislate “every worker” having “the right” to 10 days’ paid family violence leave, should they request it. With the party split between inner-city progressives and its more conservative suburban and regional membership, the left wants the party to adopt “policies that support a transition to a clean energy economy” and makes no mention of support for coalmining or coal-fired power stations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pledge also backs establishing a “first nation’s voice” in the constitution, as recommended in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and commits to signing a treaty with “our first nations”.There is also vague commitment to enable every Australian, to have “the right to a decent, well-funded education system at every stage of their life”.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Next stop romance as Edinburgh imports cut straight to the heart</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Murray Bramwell </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>585 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THEATRE Adelaide Fringe Love Letters to the Public Transport System , Holden Street Theatres, February 14; Borders , Holden Street Theatres, February 14; Fallot , Empire Theatre, Royal Croquet Club, February 17</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Adelaide Fringe has switched on. With the opening night Parade of Light, a series of installations illuminating North Terrace for the duration of the festival, the program of more than 1200 events began last Friday. The largest arts event in the southern hemisphere, second only to Edinburgh, the Adelaide Fringe is an uncurated colossus that transforms the city.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The theatre program alone lists 130 events and, again this year, Holden Street Theatres were among the first out of the blocks with a selection of critical successes direct from Edinburgh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many commuters may think Love Letters to the Public Transport System is a cruel oxymoron. But Molly Taylor’s monologue, an artful panegyric to tubes and trains and buses, is a disarmingly tender account of a private life acted out in public space. It is about love gone bung and love — in a chance meeting at the White Horse pub — reawakened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The course of events never does run smooth but that doesn’t stop Taylor wanting to write and thank the drivers at Virgin Rail and London Transport, especially Barry Henshaw, for connecting her, Tam, Margaret and other travelling souls in the Greater London area, with the chances, coincidences, destinies and destinations that make up all our serendipitous lives. Love Letters is a wryly pitched reminder that the transports of the heart can surprise us, especially when they don’t run to schedule.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Borders is the fourth play in British writer Henry Naylor’s outstanding Arabian Nightmares series. Echoes and Angel have already been performed at Holden Street in recent festivals and this newest work deserves the acclaim it brings from the Edinburgh season. Crisply directed by Michael Cabot and Louise Skaaning, Borders charts the progress of Sebastian (Graham O’Mara), an ambitious photojournalist who, after gaining accidental fame meeting and photographing Osama bin Laden, abandons news for celebrity portraiture. It also presents the utterly different life of an unnamed Syrian woman (the excellent Avital Lvova), besieged in Homs and taking revenge on her father’s death by defacing images of the Assad regime with graffiti.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Naylor’s alternating monologues are exhilarating in their pace and vivid detail. The description of the eventual crossing of paths, as Sebastian documents the perils of the nameless young artist’s <b>refugee boat</b> in the Mediterranean, is timely and thrillingly dramatised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unless you are a cardiologist you may not know Tetralogy of Fallot is a congenital heart defect. Circus performer Marianna Joslin was diagnosed with the condition at the age of six and has had two major surgeries, with a third still to come. Fallot is her story, told partly by Joslin as factual narrative but mostly using circus routines and gymnastics featuring Olivia Porter, Phoebe Armstrong, Jake Silvester and Casey Douglas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a pulsing soundtrack, Porter shimmies up a scarlet drape into a wire frame shaped like an anatomical heart. The trauma of surgery and the fragility of recovery are expressed with pathos and verve. Fallot is not yet fully dramatically resolved but it is an intriguing idea bravely ventured, in true Fringe fashion.Love Letters to the Public Transport System, until March 1; Borders, until March 18; Fallot, until Sunday. The Adelaide Fringe runs until March 18. Bookings: 1300 621 255 or online.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM MADE RIGHT MOVE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>David.Ellery </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>387 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PM MADE RIGHT MOVE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PM should be commended for his late, but necessary, step towards restoring some respect for the office of Deputy Prime Minister and for parliamentary standards.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What to do next to minimise damage from Baa-rnaby brain snaps?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ambassador to Burundi perhaps?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Free accommodation with no strings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don Burns, Mawson</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HOLDING BACK TIDE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sex in the House has been banned .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thanks Malcolm (Canute) Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Roy Bray, Flynn</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JOYCE ON BORROWED TIME</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberals want Joyce out of the Parliament as he is an electoral liability. They have been very vocal about this. He has a reprieve - but only until the next Newspoll. If the numbers fall the Liberals will call for Barnaby's head.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ray Armstrong, Tweed</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Heads South, NSW</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BARNACLE ON THE <b>BOAT</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Barnaby is an albatross around the Prime Minister's neck and a barnacle on his <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Annie Lang, Kambah</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BAN NEEDS EXTENDING</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced that the Ministerial Code of Conduct will be changed to include a ban on sexual relations between ministers and their staff. Why stop at ministers? Why not all members of Parliament?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don Sephton, Greenway</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THERE'S A LESSON HERE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A simple message from the people to all politicians and their political parties: 'fess up, don't cover up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sue Dyer, Downer</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FINER DETAILS PLEASE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Will the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister please explain to the Australian public their definition of the "sexual relations" they have just banned. Will the ban be retrospective?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Davenport, Farrer</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LEAST OF HIS FAULTS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why the recent outcry over Barnaby Joyce's foibles and misdemeanours? The fault for which he should be condemned is his indifference to cruelty to animals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mike Dallwitz, Giralang</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TRUMP LOGIC A FAIL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not a single Muslim <b>refugee</b> has ever killed an American, yet Trump bans all Muslim refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Contrarily, there have been 1606 mass shootings since Sandy Hook, yet there is still no sign of any gun control laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khizar Rana, Walkerville, SA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DEADLY CONSEQUENCES</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In America they demand the right to bear arms. As a result they have an obligation to bear coffins.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Go figure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mark Sproat, Lyons</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> swaps lift ahead of talks</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Graham Lloyd </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>357 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The controversial Australia-US <b>refugee</b> swap is gathering pace ahead of Malcolm Turnbull’s meeting with Donald Trump in Washington next week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two groups of refugees were this week sent from Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru to the US, and two groups of <b>asylum</b>-seekers from El Salvador have been assembled in Costa Rica for clearance to resettle in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration officials have ­denied the <b>refugee</b> deals were linked but they were the source of early friction between the President and Prime Minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Trump slammed the deal negotiated with Barack Obama as “the worst deal ever”, “stupid” and said it would “kill” him politically. But the US has stuck to its agreement to take 1250 refugees from the Middle East and Asia who were denied entry to Australia after arriving by <b>boat</b> and diverted to Nauru and Manus Island for processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In return, Australia has agreed to take refugees fleeing one of the countries reportedly labelled a “shit hole” by Mr Trump at the height of a recent US debate on immigration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> numbers have exploded in El Salvador in recent years in response to a breakdown of law and order.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A UNHRC spokesman in New York said about 30 Salvadorian refugees were in Costa Rica en route to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They travelled in two groups, one at the end of November and the other in the first week of ­December 2017,” the spokesman said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">UN</span> officials in Costa Rica have denied media access to the <b>asylum</b>-seekers. There has been no word from Australian immigration officials on when the resettlement might take place.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But resettlement of refugees from Manus Island to the US has been stepped up ahead of next week’s meeting between Mr Trump and Mr Turnbull. A third group of 18 refugees from Manus Island flew from Port Moresby yesterday to be resettled in the US.The men were all single ­Afghan, Pakistani and Rohingyan refugees. The departure takes the total number of Manus refugees accepted by the US to 85. About 1000 refugees remain in Nauru and 750 on Manus.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A seat at the table</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nina Rousseau </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>659 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"> </p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cooking classes are giving <b>asylum</b> seekers a fresh start in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All good dinner parties need a raconteur, and Free to Feed has some of the best. These hosts have hard-won tales of threat, loss, corruption and new starts, the first-person stories relayed with humour and humility as the scent of spices hangs in the air.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Take Hamed, who fled Iran with his pregnant girlfriend to avoid the lash or a jail term. Or Nayran, forced to leave her home in Syria during the brutal civil war. Then there's Charu, who arrived at Christmas Island by <b>boat</b> with her two-year-old "because I wanted to see my son have a future".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Free to Feed, a not-for-profit social enterprise run by Loretta and Daniel Bolotin, has tapped into the global trend of "experiential dining", creating one-off events that give diners an interactive way to connect food with emotion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As diners, you have the chance to ask questions you might be too shy to otherwise ask. "What was it like in detention?" one woman, a lawyer, asks curiously. "I had lots of friends there," Hamed says. "Officers from New Zealand. At night, they'd come and play us guitar and try to teach us English. If you open your door to be friends, they'll come, but some people close their door, to sleep. They don't eat, they just cry. They are very, very sad."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If someone is sick, do they have a doctor?" another diner asks, and around it goes, all the while snacking on freshly baked flatbread and sipping sweet mint tea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the format of a cooking class, diners break naan while learning about one <b>asylum</b> seeker's culture, hearing their stories, cooking their traditional recipes, and sharing the dishes around a communal table.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The best feedback we get is from participants," Loretta Bolotin says. "They love it. They want to connect and do something good. And food really helps."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Working with <b>asylum</b> seekers who already had cooking skills, Free to Feed has hosted more than 400 classes and events since it began in 2015. "Learning how to become a cooking class instructor is a challenging gig, especially if English is your second language," Loretta says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Free to Feed employs five cooks-in-residence, 10 casuals, and has about 40 volunteers. As well as cooking classes, Free to Feed runs home experiences where an instructor can cook for up to 10 friends, and team-building cooking workshops.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Refugees are often socially isolated from the new community they arrive in and can feel quite alone," Loretta says. "They have an extremely difficult time trying to find work, they don't know the job market, or whether the 10 years of experience running a restaurant in Iran is going to be recognised here."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Recently, Free to Feed received funding for Now to Launch, a program helping entrepreneurial refugees and migrants kickstart food businesses. "Research shows that refugees are risk-takers, they're enterprising, they're entrepreneurial," Loretta says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We see so many good ideas. They are ready to start but might need some upskilling, or help with budgeting or exploring technology and how it can be leveraged."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I visit Charu at Free to Feed in High Street, Thornbury, mustard and fennel seeds are sizzling in the pan and she's rapidly chopping green chillies for eggplant and chickpea curry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Charu learnt to cook from her grandmother and mother, who ran a restaurant in southern Sri Lanka.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The eggplant curry is my grandmother's recipe but she used to make it with banana," she says. "Loretta and Daniel are the best people. I'm very happy to visit these kind of people. It's improved my English and skills."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Free to Feed cooking classes are</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">$90 a head. Bookings at freetofeed.org.au.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"> For more of Charu's recipes, go to goodfood.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ALP will let you in</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE ANNIKA SMETHURST NATIONAL POLITICS EDITOR </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>404 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EXCLUSIVE PEOPLE smugglers are telling would-be <b>asylum</b> seekers a change of government would result in a “softening” of Australia’s border protection policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the first time, a well-known people smuggler in southeast Asia has told prospective clients Australia’s tough turnback policy is at risk if Labor is elected.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A senior intelligence source said it was the first time “the Labor Party” had specifically been mentioned by people smugglers trying to promote illegal voyages to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is no longer just chatter, it is openly being discussed among people smugglers, including at least one inst­ance of a people smuggler preparing for a possible change of government,” the source said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If elected, Labor leader Bill Shorten has vowed to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats following a hard-fought policy victory at the ALP national conference in 2015 which divided his frontbench.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor’s border protection policy will again be debated at its national conference in South Australia in July.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In recent months intelligence officials have expressed concern people smugglers in the region were using any slight language change by political leaders to encourage desperate clients to risk their lives at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The senior intelligence source, spea­king on the condition of anonymity, said people smugglers had become “much more aware of political developments” in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People smugglers in the region, ­including in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, were “preparing for a new government that they believe could soften its policy”, the source said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last month Immigration Minister Peter Dutton warned New Zealand was being “marketed” as a destination by people smugglers after New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern lobbied Australia to allow it to resettle 150 refugees from Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton would not comment on the latest revelations when contacted yesterday. The people-smuggling intelligence was picked up in ­recent months and comes ahead of the Batman by-election in Melbourne next month, where Labor is gearing up for a fierce fight against the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s candidate, former <span class="companylink">ACTU</span> boss Ged Kearney, has previously criticised Labor’s tough policy on <b>asylum</b>-seekers, calling for an end to <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberal Party has ruled out ­running a candidate in the March 17 by-election, meaning the poll is likely to be fought on Left-wing issues such as refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">annika.smethurst@news.com.au@annikasmethurst</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We need a large measure of decency in our actions</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Warwick.McFadyen </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>492 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REFUGEES AND <b>ASYLUM</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Grandmothers Against Detention of <b>Refugee</b> Children had the honour of Michael Gordon speak at their recent seminar. He was the first journalist on Nauru after the "Pacific Solution" had been implemented in 2001 after the Tampa affair.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By 2005, he recounted, 27 <b>asylum</b> seekers remained on Nauru after being there four years, all in bad shape. Amanda Vanstone as Immigration Minister sent in a mental health team and listened to them. All but two refugees were granted <b>asylum</b> in Australia with humanitarian visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A similar crisis then to now but how differently it is being handled. Despite six men dying on Manus the government keeps insisting that any compassion will be a green light for the smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A truce is needed to break the impasse, he concluded, and someone with the qualities of compassion and moral stature to oversee this. He spoke of Michael Kirby, but these were his own qualities as well of course. How much this steadfast, decent man will be missed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pamela Jonas, Kew</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ignorance is no excuse</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When a minister (Treasurer Scott Morrison) again said on Radio National on Tuesday morning that people coming by <b>boat</b> were "illegal" I realised that politicians were either ignorant (which is deeply concerning) or protected by the Canberra bubble (also very concerning) they work/live in, from the knowledge that Australia is a signatory to the <b>Refugee</b> Convention as well as the graphic evidence-based information and reports coming out of Nauru and Manus for years of abuse and trauma to people who have not broken any law, and which so many of us find extremely abhorrent and painful to know and see.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joan Lynn, Williamstown</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I had a dream, then I awoke</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps inspired by the wonderful work of Michael Gordon, I had a dream that the federal government announced some enlightened policies, including support for the 2017 Uluru Statement; a commitment to work with ethnic communities; the closure of all detention centres and allowing all <b>asylum</b> seekers into the community while their claims are rapidly assessed; working with international agencies and other countries to quickly process the claims of <b>asylum</b> seekers in the places to which they first flee; taking effective actions to reduce man-made carbon emissions, including introducing an emissions trading scheme and encouraging renewables; and winding back negative gearing and the capital gains tax advantage enjoyed by investors in existing houses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then I woke up to the nightmarish reality that the Government had recently dismissed the Uluru statement; vilified African communities in Melbourne; turned down New Zealand's latest offer to take some of the Manus Island refugees; continued holding people indefinitely in offshore and onshore detention centres; maintained support for the environmentally disastrous Adani mine and criticised South Australia for promoting renewables; and ignored Treasury advice that winding back negative gearing would not "smash" house prices.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Andrew Trembath, Blackburn</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SAGE000020180210ee2b0001f</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SAGE000020180210ee2b0000k" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nauru girl at high risk removed</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Latika Bourke </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>544 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A young girl living on Nauru who believes dying will free her from her "bad life" has developed a mental health condition so rarely seen in children that a federal judge has ordered she be flown to Australia for specialist treatment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The girl, who said she "thinks about dying like the Sri Lankan man" who committed suicide on Manus Island, has tried to kill herself once and has threatened to commit suicide at other times.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Medical experts who have observed the girl say she reports hearing the voice of a foreign man in her head urging her to take her own life. Clinical notes prepared by Sharyn Bunn, a child psychologist working for International Health and Medical Services said: "[The applicant] stated that the voice tells her 'dying is better than living, you'll be free'.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"[She] blames the Australian government for her state of mind and says that she is trapped in no land and that she thinks about dying like the Sri Lankan man. [She] also stated she wanted to die because she is stuck in Nauru."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another child psychiatrist contracted by the international medical service, Dr Vernon Reynolds, said the girl had been "expressing ideas that she is not liked or loved by anyone and that she is not wanted and is a burden to people".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"She has expressed suicidal ideas and thoughts that suicide would help her to get free 'from this bad life'," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Louise Newman, a professor of psychiatry at <span class="companylink">Melbourne University</span> , said in statements tendered in court that the girl is an "extreme suicide risk" and is "possibly developing a psychotic depressive illness".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Suicide attempts in a [child of this age] are extremely serious and this requires immediate assessment and treatment."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Justice Bernard Murphy's judgment, the girl, who cannot be legally identified, is described as "not yet a teenager" who arrived at Christmas Island on a <b>boat</b> in 2013 with her parents and older sister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Soon after she and her family were transferred to Nauru and were recognised as refugees in 2014 and granted temporary protection visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court documents show the girl's mental health has deteriorated while on the island and suffered a major setback when her parents split last year. In December, she attempted suicide. Her mother asked for her daughter to be flown to Australia for treatment. The government refused her request.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian human rights lawyers took the case to the Federal Court in Melbourne and successfully sought an interlocutory injunction ordering the girl be brought to the mainland for specialist psychiatric care not available on Nauru. .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Justice Murphy said: "Given the severity of the applicant's psychiatric condition, I am disinclined to accept that a child psychiatrist visiting every few months (or even every month) would provide sufficiently regular and ongoing treatment to appropriately treat the applicant and prevent her suicide or self-harm."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government confirmed on Friday the girl had been flown to Australia for treatment. "The Department of Home Affairs can confirm a <b>refugee</b> has been transferred from Nauru to Australia for medical treatment," a spokesperson said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Readers seeking support can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 and Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sharing a dream with Michael</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Arnold Zable </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1984 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The forgotten men of Australia's offshore detention regimes found a friend and a brother in Michael Gordon. They spoke to Arnold Zable about their feelings of loss.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Ali Mullaie heard the news of Michael Gordon's sudden death, he was shattered. Since then he has not slept well. "I keep thinking and dreaming of Michael, and the many things that were between us," he says. "It is impossible to find the words that describe who he was to me. He was the closest friend a person could have. He was a father figure. A brother. A role model, and he was my colleague when I worked at The Age as an information consultant.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He introduced me to his partner Robyn, and his children, and I became a part of his family. He helped me with job opportunities. He was always there for me and I was there for him. I could pick up the phone any time and speak to him. We would meet for coffee, go for lunch and dinner. He would take me on drives to Phillip Island. He took me to the footy and to the beaches where he went surfing. He discussed his designs for the holiday house he was building. He introduced me to the Australian way of life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We hugged each other whenever we met. We sent each other messages. When I was feeling down, he would tap me on the shoulder and say, 'You're OK. You're strong.' We would talk about everything, or we said nothing and enjoyed each other's company. Or we would just have a laugh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What can I say? We connected."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael Gordon met Ali Mullaie in April 2005, when he was the first journalist allowed on Nauru during the final phase of the Pacific Solution, Mark 1. Ali, then 22, was one of the last 54 detainees still stranded on the island. He has a clear memory of their first meeting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It was in the computer lab in Nauru College, where I was a teacher of English and computer science. The connection was instant. I could feel it. I was appointed his interpreter. We spent a lot of time walking around the island. He wondered if my name was Ali or Sir, because everywhere I went, the students called me sir. He saw how they ran up to me and how we walked together. He saw that the locals respected me because I taught their children, and because I was engaged with the community. He understood my achievement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"On Nauru, I taught myself English and computer science. I did not waste my time. But I had no family. Michael could truly hear me. Until then no one outside Nauru knew me. No one had told my story. And because he was there, and spent time with me, and with those inside the detention camp, and because he listened, he wrote the truth about our despair, and our aspirations."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali stresses: "He did not see me as a victim. Our friendship had nothing to do with this. It was not based on sympathy. He was human, and he saw me as human.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I want to get the words right, as if Michael is listening, and can feel what I am saying. We were born in separate countries, and came from different cultures. I was Hazara, but it made no difference. Our friendship was not about the past. It was about now, and about the future. It was about total trust, and about two human beings. Two Australians. I deeply miss him."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The public knew Michael through his ground-breaking journalism about the plight of refugees and detained <b>asylum</b> seekers. But his involvement went far beyond the call of his profession. Michael was a loyal friend to some of the people he wrote about.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two strands were distinct, but closely interwoven. This can be seen in Michael's relationship with Manus Island detainee Loghman Sawari. When Loghman heard the news of Michael's death, he too was shattered. "Michael will always be in my heart," he says. "He is one great man I met from Australia."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a report published in September 2015, Michael wrote: "When Loghman Sawari became the first <b>refugee</b> to attempt suicide after being released from the detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, the reaction was as swift as it was brutal. The teenager was transferred not in an ambulance, but in the back of the 10-seat vehicle of the island's police commissioner, and not to the hospital, but to the local lock-up, where he spent 24 hours in a small cell with about 20 locals."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael continued to report Loghman's story over the ensuing years. He wrote of his daring escape to Fiji, his arrest and deportation, his jailing in Port Moresby, and the campaign for his release. He worked in close consultation with Loghman's friend and supporter, writer and advocate Janet Galbraith.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Michael's concern for Loghman's personal welfare always came first," she says. "He developed a personal relationship with him. Whenever he went to PNG he made sure he spent time with him. He was distressed by his vulnerability, and the immense suffering he endured at such a young age. When he was on the run, in Fiji, Michael called him many times and counselled him. His deep concern for his safety was his priority. Writing the story was the last resort."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two strands - Michael as journalist and friend - are evident in his mentoring of Rohingya detainee Imran Mohammad. When he was 16, Imran fled Myanmar in fear for his life. After a terrifying <b>boat</b> journey from Bangladesh to Malaysia and time as an indentured slave, Imran made it to Indonesia. His <b>boat</b> was intercepted en route to Australia and he is now in his fifth year of exile on Manus Island. Imran taught himself English and began writing about the plight of fellow detainees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I studied Michael's work and approach to journalism," Imran says. "I read many articles which were written by him. I found his email address and sent my articles off to him. He took time to read and edit my writing, like a father checks his child's homework. He used to provide me with very useful suggestions about how to write powerful articles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One of the important things I learned from him was how to organise an article with less words by keeping to the main message. It was very challenging for me, but I started to understand what he was trying to teach me. We communicated via email, but after a while we stayed in touch by WhatsApp. It became a personal friendship, and I met him when he came to Manus in 2017."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reflecting on his impressions of Michael, Imran concludes: "He was a very calm, caring, sympathetic and passionate person. There was a feeling of safety in his company. He made the atmosphere very pleasant when I met him. He was more than just a friend to me. He was like a father."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Kurdish-Iranian detainee Behnam Satah heard the news of Michael's death, he wept. "Michael was a brother," he says. "He was always checking on me and asking how I am and if I need anything. I cried for a long time. He was like family to me."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Behnam witnessed the murder of his friend and roommate, fellow Kurdish-Iranian Reza Barati, during a night of violence on February 17, 2014. He saw him bashed to death by six people. Only two PNG locals have been charged and convicted. Despite ongoing death threats and intimidation by one of the convicted, and the denial of witness protection, Behnam gave evidence at the trial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Michael was supporting me during my worst time in life while I was under threats and stress," Behnam says. "Describing him in words is very hard because there are no words that match his personality. I wish I could talk to him one more time and hear his voice again. I wish I could attend his funeral. Please buy flowers for me and give it to his family."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"As a journalist, Michael was always interested in the details," says social advocate Di Cousens, who assisted him in liaising with Behnam and other men on Manus island. "He always looked for the evidence. He asked for documents, photos of the injuries and details about the bashings, the attempted suicides. He chased the facts - the fact that Behnam had a terrible fungal infection in his hands which went untreated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The fact that one detainee was beaten by two guards - one inside the room and one outside - after he was cut down after an attempted suicide by hanging. He asked to be notified when incidents occurred even in the middle of the night."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bearing witness, and engaging for years on end with the personal lives of detained <b>asylum</b> seekers, can take its toll. Janet Galbraith, who often met with Michael to discuss the ongoing horror, observes: "Like those of us who have seen it close up for so long, Michael began to feel so ineffectual, so helpless. It troubled him deeply. The people on Manus are still dying. People are going mad. It has not stopped. This eventually got to Michael."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael's distress can be sensed in many of his stories. Reflecting upon Loghman Sawari's ordeal, he wrote: "What compelled the 19-year-old to turn a towel into a makeshift noose, attach it to a rafter outside his room and step from a chair to oblivion is hardly a mystery. His bottom lip trembles uncontrollably as he tries to explain that anger, despair and an all-consuming sense of hopelessness propelled him."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a piece published in December 2015 headlined "My Manus nightmare", Michael writes of being haunted by the image of Loghman Sawari breaking down while he is trying to explain, on camera, how much he misses the mother who believes he has made it safely to Australia and is doing well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Contemplating the immovability of Australian government policy, Michael despairs: "There is a view that the situation on Manus, like that on Nauru, is unsustainable, and that eventually the penny will drop that the end does not justify the means, that punishing one group of people endlessly in order to deter others is immoral, and that there is another way to achieve the same policy objective. It used to be my view. Now I'm not so sure."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael has left a legacy of work that documents the brutal consequences of Australia's offshore detention centres. When I asked Imran Mohammad why Michael's death has been so deeply felt by the men exiled on Manus Island, he replied: "He shone a powerful light on our plight for many years. He wrote about our lives with honesty and great respect. We reached out to him whenever there was a problem on Manus. He was our great voice out there. It is like we lost our right shoulder."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Michael also left us with the antidote to that cruelty - his friendships with those who continue to endure it. My fondest memory of Michael is of him attending the social gatherings at the Fitzroy Learning Network back in the early 2000s. "Party therapy" is how those gatherings were known by Anne Horrigan-Dixon, under whose leadership the network became a refuge for many <b>asylum</b> seekers stranded on temporary visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael was a gentle presence at the parties. Typically he stood to one side, beer in hand. Listening. Observing. Quietly nurturing friendships. He was deeply moved. He understood this was the heart of the story: community, and healing. A means of giving voice to the voiceless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Arnold Zable is a Melbourne writer. This is the fifth piece in the Philoxenia series.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Scores of migrants feared dead</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Stephanie Nebehay Ahmed Elumami Geneva </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>547 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An estimated 90 migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of Libya after a smuggler's <b>boat</b> capsized early on Friday, leaving three known survivors and 10 bodies washed up on shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Survivors told aid workers that most of the migrants on board were Pakistanis, who form a growing group heading to Italy from North Africa, <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> (<span class="companylink">IOM</span>) spokeswoman Olivia Headon told a Geneva news briefing from Tunis.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They have given an estimate of 90 who drowned during the capsize, but we still have to verify the exact number of people who lost their lives during the tragedy," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier, security officials in the western Libyan town of Zuwara said two Libyans and one Pakistani had been rescued from the <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ten bodies were recovered, mostly Pakistani, but no further information was provided.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zuwara, near Libya's border with Tunisia, is a favoured site for migrant <b>boat</b> departures .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Libya is the main gateway for migrants trying to cross to Europe by sea, though numbers have dropped sharply since July as Libyan factions and authorities - under pressure from Italy and the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> - have begun to block departures. More than 600,000 people are believed to have made the journey from Libya to Italy over the past four years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The United Nations is trying to determine what has precipitated the surge in Pakistanis making the journey through Libya. Some migrants may have diverted to Libya after more traditional routes through Turkey and Greece were closed off or became more difficult to cross in winter, said Flavio Di Giacomo, a <span class="companylink">UN</span> migration official in Rome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some of the Pakistani migrants who crossed to Italy last month had been expelled from <b>refugee</b> camps in Greece, where they were sent back to Turkey before finding their way to Libya via Sudan, he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Di Giacomo also raised the possibility that the new wave of Pakistani migrants was drawn from a long-standing population of Pakistani migrant labourers inside Libya, which has been a destination for Pakistani workers since the time of Muammar Gaddafi, who was ousted from power during the Arab Spring in 2011.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deteriorating conditions in Libya could have compelled the Pakistanis to abandon the country and make the sea crossing, Di Giacomo said. "They find themselves stuck in a horrible situation, vulnerable to human rights violations and the slave market. So they may have no choice but to seek a crossing to Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We have to investigate whether they have been living in Libya for years or coming more recently through Turkey and Sudan," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Leonard Doyle, a spokesman for the IOM, said another possible reason for the growing number of Pakistanis, as well as Bangladeshis, making such journeys could be the increased use of social media to better connect with people willing to attempt the trip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was no immediate reaction from the Pakistani government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pakistan has previously said it is taking measures to reduce people-smuggling and illegal migration. Its embassy in Athens wrote to officials in Islamabad last month, according to local news outlets, appealing for additional help to curb migration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pakistanis have been trying to get into Europe illegally for decades.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reuters, <span class="companylink">New York Times</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Longman key battleground</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID SPEERS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>873 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 February 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>41</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten was best man at David Feeney’s wedding. Both were elected to Parliament at the 2007 election. And both found fame in their first term for being among the “faceless men” who brought down Kevin Rudd.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These two were close. But in what is now easily Labor’s worst state branch for intra-factional warfare, the two Victorians fell out in recent years.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Feeney had a shocker during the last election campaign, failing to declare an investment property and bungling Labor’s policy positions. He was dropped from Shorten’s front bench.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Feeney created more headaches in December when he admitted he couldn’t find evidence to prove he had renounced dual citizenship. This left the Opposition Leader, who had boasted of Labor’s extreme citizenship vetting, looking foolish.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Thursday, with one hour to go before a High Court deadline to produce some evidence, Feeney confirmed there was none and resigned. He didn’t need to be told not to bother recontesting the seat. The writing was on the wall. Feeney agreed another candidate was the party’s only hope.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has had two months to consider who to pick. Journalist, author and former Labor adviser Jamila Rizvi was the initial hope. Those plans were unfortunately scotched by a brain tumour. Rizvi found the benign tumour before Christmas and is now recovering from surgery.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead ACTU President Ged Kearney has agreed to run as Labor’s candidate in Batman. “She’s the best of those available,” says one Labor figure who rates their chances of holding the seat, perhaps pessimistically, at only one in four.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens have been eating away at Labor’s margin in Batman for years. Now they look set to secure their second lower house seat. They opened their campaign yesterday with a far-fetched plan to seize privately owned electricity assets and convert them back to public ownership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This won’t trouble Labor. But the Greens’ campaign on two other awkward issues will – Adani and <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s no chance the ALP will budge on refugees. Any sign it might soften on <b>boat</b> turn-backs or offshore processing would be fatal to the party’s chances outside the Green belts of inner-city Melbourne and Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the proposed Adani coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin is another matter. Labor’s position on the controversial mine is now a “live issue” within the party. Labor MPs have each been bombarded with 5000 emails in the past few days, urging them to block the giant mine, in a campaign organised by the <span class="companylink">Australian Conservation Foundation</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But while the mine may be hugely unpopular in a seat such as Batman, it’s still seen as an essential jobs generator in north Queensland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And herein lies the test for Shorten. Is he willing to sacrifice Batman to protect his chances of becoming prime minister?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor can lose Batman and still win the federal election. It’s hard to see how it can realistically win both.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chasing Green votes on <b>asylum</b> seekers and Adani to hold this inner-city seat could cost Labor dearly elsewhere. Shorten’s colleagues are watching closely and urging him not to take his eyes off the main prize.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A defeat in Batman would rock Shorten and test the remarkable discipline Labor has shown under his leadership. However, a policy capitulation to the Greens would be far worse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As for the Liberals, they won’t contest Batman, having secured only 20 per cent of the vote there in 2016. Technically, the local branch members have the final say on this, but the party hierarchy will argue it’s best to watch Labor and the Greens slug it out from the sidelines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberals will still spend some money though. They will use the federal by-election to campaign against the Andrews Labor Government, ahead of the Victorian election due in November.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the Batman by-election will be fun for the Government to watch, it’s far more interested in forcing another by-election in the Queensland seat of Longman, where Labor’s Susan Lamb is also in a citizenship stew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her own lawyer concedes that Lamb (inset) is still a British citizen, with legal opinion divided on whether she took “reasonable steps” to renounce.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor scraped over the line in Longman at the last election, thanks in part to One Nation directing preferences against then sitting MP Wyatt Roy. Pauline Hanson is unlikely to repeat the favour for Labor at a by-election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition sniffs an opportunity to grab the seat and increase its wafer-thin majority in the House.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A by-election in suburban Longman would present a far better guide than inner-city Batman as to how the two sides are shaping up ahead of the next general election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do voters think a company tax cut or a higher minimum wage is the answer to their cost-of-living woes?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten can survive a loss to the Greens in Batman, but would come under enormous pressure if he also lost to the LNP in Longman. The next few months will be critical for the Opposition Leader.David Speers is Sky News’ political editor</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The story of us IN 100 OBJECTS</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the Hills Hoist to the Mall’s Balls, the stump-jump plough to Barnsey’s headband, here’s our A to Z of the historical and cultural treasures that tell the tale of our state. It’s time for a new museum to house the South Australian Collection</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">South Australian Museum</span> is one of the great assets of this state. But where is the Museum of South Australia?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unlike SAM, which is a world-beating institution focused on a series of specific subjects, a Museum of South Australia would display the artefacts, documents, and stories of South Australia, Adelaide, and what humans have created here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For example, the Museum of Sydney “celebrates the people and events that have shaped the character and soul of this city.” There are similar museums in Brisbane and more recently in Perth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SA has plenty of attributes that make it unusual, and many elements that can be found nowhere else.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But one problem confronting such a museum is the diverse nature of what we might call the South Australian Collection. It is dispersed to an almost spectacular degree.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are dozens of museums and museum collections, ranging from <span class="companylink">National Trust</span> collections in far-flung country centres to the SA Museum and the various History Trust museums in maritime, migration, automobile and other specialities. There is also no shortage of voluntary museums of aviation, army transport, railways, military, police and the like. As wel, SA’s archives, libraries and galleries also include museum collections.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the History Trust is a leading contender for its South Australiana collections, many items, are in the Adelaide City Council Collection. Did you know the rapiers used by Light and his sparring partner, William Jacob, while sailing to Adelaide on the brig Rapid, are held by the City Council?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some artefacts survived by chance. When nearly all Colonel Light’s papers were lost in a disastrous fire, it just happened that he had sent off his first watercolour paintings of the colony to Britain, and they survived and have since been returned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the digital logging and recording of our heritage continues, it might soon be possible to assemble a virtual collection of South Australiana online. But nothing beats the sense of awe in viewing the original.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Museum of South Australia would have a constantly changing array of key exhibits selected from all our museums. But how is this list for starters?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We also pose the question of future museum objects. Should Jimmy Barnes’ sweaty headband be there? How about Humphrey B. Bear’s hat? Or a pie floater?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A 1. Adelaide Hunt Club Cup, 1870, H Steiner, Art Gallery of South Australia The first horse race in SA was at Thebarton in 1838 and extravagant gold cups designed and made by local jewellers such as this one show how horses were central to the state’s early development and lifestyle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2. Adelaide Mosque, Little Gilbert Street, Adelaide Australia’s oldest surviving mosque was funded by the “Afghan” cameleers who had come to Australia with their camels to open up the arid pastoral lands of the interior. The mosque was built in 1888-89 and the minarets added in 1903.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">3. The Adelaide Pound, City of Adelaide Collection The creation of the Adelaide Pound staved off a financial crisis in SA caused by the Victorian Gold Rush, when about 16 per cent of the population left the state almost overnight. SA announced it would take bullion by armed escort from the goldfields and force banks to back their notes with bullion. Most pounds were melted, making mint examples rare and valuable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4. Dame Judith Anderson at Adelaide’s Her Majesty’s Theatre in 1915, SA Performing Arts Collection SA’s most famous actress left costumes and scrapbooks and theatre programs to the collection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5. Annie Watt, South Australian Maritime Museum The last wooden ketch to sail in SA waters, the Annie Watt was built in Tasmania in 1870 and worked along the SA coast from 1873 to 1971. Now in storage in hope of restoration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">6. Apron, Adelaide Central Market, 2018 Adelaide’s prime food outlet, meeting place and tourism attraction has made its name from its scores of traders. The neighbouring Market Arcade is returning to City Council ownership, offering a new chapter of development ahead of its 150th anniversary in 2019.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">7. Australian giant cuttlefish, Spencer Gulf The annual migration of the Australian giant cuttlefish to the waters of the upper Spencer Gulf sees giant cuttlefish interact and dance during their mating ritual at the Arrium breakwaters near Whyalla.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8. The Australian Jazz Quartet record Three South Australian jazz players emerged as one of America’s top jazz bands in the 1950s. Adelaide-born Errol Buddle and Jack Brokensha, together with Bryce Rohde, originally from Hobart, played in Adelaide’s booming jazz scene of the early 1950s before establishing themselves in the US with American Dick Healey. They toured nationally there with Dave Brubeck, Thelonius Monk and Billie Holiday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">B 9. Baggage label, Gulf Trip, SAMM From 1910 to the 1960s the Gulf Trip on Adelaide Steamship vessels was an exciting way to see SA. Popular with honeymooners and notorious party ships for young men, the seven-day trip cost £6 in 1939.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">10. Barnesy’s sweaty bandanna, Japan, 1980 Elizabeth rocker Jimmy Barnes had fallen for Jane Mahoney in 1979 but she found the attention overwhelming and moved to Japan to be with her diplomat father. Jimmy followed, writing songs such as Rising Sun for his band Cold Chisel’s East album that year, and wearing a bandanna covered in Japanese characters to impress Jane. Ten years later he was told the writing had been upside down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">11. Blacksmith’s Book, 1858, Migration Museum Barossa Valley grower and blacksmith Johann Sporn recorded all his apricot and grape sales from his Light’s Pass farm from 1858 to 1928. SA had proved productive for horticulture and market gardening from its earliest days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">12. Kym Bonython by John Brack, <span class="companylink">National Portrait Gallery</span> When the Ash Wednesday fires killed 28 South Australians and a further 45 Victorians in February 1983, it also raced up to Mount Lofty and wiped out many grand mansions, including the Bonython family home, Eurilla, where adventurer, speedway racer and art patron Kym Bonython lived. It destroyed one of the great collections of 20th century Australian art and Australia’s biggest collection of jazz recordings, 5000 in all, signed by the artists. Just one painting survived, John Brack’s portrait of Kym Bonython. In 2007 he gave it to the <span class="companylink">National Portrait Gallery</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">13. Bradman’s bats, Bradman Museum Don Bradman made his Test debut against England in the 1928-29 season. He scored 18 and one, and Australia lost the first Test by the biggest margin of any Ashes series, before or since. By the end of the series he was world-famous. He moved to SA from NSW in 1934 and lived out his days here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">C 14. Caroma dual flush toilet SA’s Austrian immigrant Charles Rothauser invented a plastic cistern for toilets as his answer to Adelaide’s corrosive water supply. Thanks to employee Bruce Thompson, in 1982 <span class="companylink">Caroma Industries</span> tackled another SA problem – the lack of water – with the dual flush toilet, now used around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15. Chinese Proclamation, MM Ever since the 1850s gold rush, overseas Chinese were an important part of South Australian society. This ornate thank you note, sent to Adelaide from China in 1889, praised the Adelaide Chinese for the funds they raised to help flood victims in the Jiangsu and Anhui provinces.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">16. Christmas Pageant floats At the height of the Great Depression, in 1933, the owner of John Martin’s department store, Sir Edward (Ian) Hayward, decided to hold a Christmas pageant, taking his inspiration from a similar pageant held by <span class="companylink">Macy’s</span>, New York’s biggest department store. The pageant is bigger and brighter than ever, and hundreds of thousands of South Australians turn out to see it each year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">17. City of Adelaide clipper, Port Adelaide The world’s oldest surviving composite (steel and wood) clipper ship was launched in Sunderland, England, in 1864. It made 23 trips to Adelaide from the UK and brought many immigrants here. It is now being restored at Port Adelaide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">18. Cobdogla Pump, Cobdogla Irrigation and Steam Museum The two huge Humphrey Pumps installed at Cobdogla on the River Murray in 1923 drove irrigation in the region by pumping up to a massive 320 megalitres a day from the river. The remarkable design is based on the internal combustion engine, moving water rather than pistons and crankshafts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">19. Coopers Sparkling Ale. In pubs The 150-year history of Coopers as SA’s beer export to the world very nearly came to an end in 2005, at the hands of an explosively hostile, legally labyrinthine, but unsuccessful takeover by Lion from the founding Cooper family. Coopers is now the only major Australian-owned brewer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">D 20. Demi Stanhope press, SA’s first printing press, History Trust of SA Brought ashore at Holdfast Bay in 1836, it was set up in a tent and printed the first 100 copies of the Proclamation of SA 21. Disposable syringe Adelaide’s pharmaceuticals company A.M. Bickford & Sons, still famed for its cordials, was manufacturing Adelaide scientist Howard Florey’s newly developed penicillin from 1949. But steel and glass syringes clogged up. In 1951, Bickford’s employee Harry Willis suggested a one-use plastic syringe. He persuaded an innovative Adelaide plastic toy-maker, Charles Rothauser (see Caroma dual flush toilets), to manufacture the world’s first successful disposable syringe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">22. Alexander Downer in high heels and fishnet stockings, The Advertiser Adelaide’s Alexander Downer, High Commissioner to the UK and former national leader of the Liberal Party, caused an inordinate amount of fuss when he agreed to dress up for a Variety Club fund-raising stunt in November, 1996.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">23. Don Dunstan’s pink shorts. History Trust of SA, for Steven Chen In 1972, South Australian Premier Don Dunstan strode into Parliament House on a summer’s day wearing pink shorts. There, his office did its best to hide him away from the media, but Don arranged to sneak out and proudly parade on Parliament steps to a bevy of photographers – perhaps baiting South Australians with his ambiguous attitude to sexuality. They were definitely baited.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">E 24. Australia’s first electroconvulsive therapy machine, History Trust of SA Psychiatrist William Dibden was the first in Australia to use ECT, with a machine made in Adelaide in 1943.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">25. Ediacaran Fossils When Flinders Ranges grazier Ross Fargher stumbled across some sheets of fossil-bearing rock on his Nilpena Station, he had no idea he’d found the earliest known multicellular animal life on Earth. Now, a 100 million year geological period from 635 to 542 million years ago bears an Aboriginal name, Ediacara, which refers to a place to find water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">26. Evaporative air conditioner, <span class="companylink">Seeley International</span> The dry, hot SA summers particularly suit evaporative air conditioners so it was no surprise that an Adelaide engineer and manufacturer, Frank Seeley, has come to dominate the world’s evaporative A/C business. They can cool a house taking less power than some ceiling fans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">F 27. Fire of Australia opal, SA Museum Worth around $1 million, this one kilogram trinket was found by Walter Bartram at Coober Pedy, the South Australian town as famous for its underground homes as the world’s best source of opals. The town is named “kupa piti” in the local language, commonly thought to mean “white man in a hole”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">28. French map of South Australia, (La Terre Napoleon) following Nicolas Baudin’s 1802 visit, State Library of SA Golfe Josephine and Golfe Bonaparte (Gulfs St Vincent and Spencer) and dozens of other French names originally adorned our coast. Many French place names have survived. If the British and French had been less bellicose at that time we could have become bilingual, like the Canadians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">29. Football. First recorded football match in Adelaide, St Patrick’s Day, 1843 The village game with the oval ball was played in the parklands by up to hundreds of players, usually attended by brass bands, huge crowds and the colony’s governor and entourage. The game became refined as Australian rules football. In April 1877, SA was the first state to establish a football league, making SANFL (originally <span class="companylink">SA Football Association</span>) one of the oldest leagues in the world in any football code.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">30. Frog Cake Balfours, long seen as SA’s top brand for cakes, invented the frog cake in 1922 after one of the Balfour family was inspired at a patisserie he visited in France. It quickly became a favourite, and was declared an SA icon in 2001. The recipe and frog-like shape haven’t changed in 96 years, but there are variations on the original light-green colour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">G 31. World’s first Gallipoli memorial, 1915, South Parklands Often termed “the forgotten Gallipoli memorial” the grieving women of Adelaide had this cenotaph erected in September 1915 in the memory of Australian soldiers after hearing of the bloodbath at “the Dardanelles” in April 1915.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">32. German wagon, Fleurieu Cherries, Willunga German settlers began arriving in Adelaide in 1838, and gradually spread out across the state. They moved whole households in these slow and massive high-sided wagons, drawn by bullocks at one mile (1.6km) an hour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">33. Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech, Centre for Democracy, Kintore Ave On October 9, 2012, Prime Minister and Adelaide’s own, Julia Gillard, finally lost her cool with her rival Tony Abbott’s constant sniping. “I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man,’’ she said. If you go to the Centre for Democracy in the Institute Building on Kintore Ave you can press the Gillard button and hear the speech. Alternatively, you can buy the tea towel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">34. Golden North Giant Twins The Bowker family formed one of SA’s enduring ice cream brands after setting up shop in Laura in the Mid North in 1923 to supply markets, including Broken Hill, with dairy products. The Giant Twins chocolate-coated ice cream bars are still popular. They used to be handmade in trays with a central indent so the company marketed Giant Twins to be broken in half to share. Its icecream competitor, Amscol, had Twin Chocs, with two sticks. The Giant Twins indents are long gone, and so is Amscol, and there isn’t so much ice cream sharing nowadays.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">35. Gold earring from Queens Theatre, Playhouse Lane, Adelaide. History Trust of SA Mainland Australia’s oldest extant theatre opened in 1840 with a production of Othello and is still used as a theatre. An archaeological dig there in the 1990s found this earring.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">36. Grange, 1951 In 1951, Penfolds winemaker Max Schubert made his first experimental vintage of the iconic Australian red wine that has won South Australia a place on the world map of great wine territories. Each remaining bottle is now worth tens of thousands of dollars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">37. Greater the flamingo, SAM When Adelaide Zoo favourite flamingo Greater died in 2014, aged 83, the SA Museum decided to mount the world’s longest-lived example of the Greater Flamingo, a challenge to the museum’s taxidermists, who had never stuffed a flamingo before.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">38. Guadagnini violin, SA Guadagnini Trust In 1955, a public subscription campaign in SA championed by The Advertiser raised £1750 to buy a rare Guadagnini violin for favourite SA violinist of the era, Carmel Hakendorf. The 1751 violin, now worth more than $1 million, continues to be loaned to SA violin virtuosos to help further their careers. It is presently in the hands of its fourth user, Sophie Rowell, associate concert master of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">H 39. Hewitt’s Wimbledon winning racket After a long time in the near-miss shadows for Aussies at Wimbledon, Adelaide tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt seemed as amazed as everyone else when he finally gave Australia its spot in the tennis sunshine again in July, 2002. Pat Cash had been the most recent previous Australian winner – in 1987.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">40. Sir Hans Heysen’s caravan, The Cedars, Hahndorf By 1926, Hans Heysen was already famous as an artist, and turned to the Flinders Ranges for inspiration. He made nine trips there between 1926 and 1933, and a further two later on, making use of his small caravan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">41. Hills Hoist, Ubiquitous Mechanic Lance Hill returned from World War II to find his Glenunga backyard so overgrown with citrus trees that his wife Sherry complained she couldn’t hang out the washing on their single line. Lance dreamed up his rotary hoist and before long his neighbours wanted one, too. The Hills Hoist has invaded suburban landscapes across the world, sturdy enough to provide children everywhere with a backyard playground and roundabout.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">42. Holden’s first car, the 48/215, National Motor Museum In 1948, <span class="companylink">General Motors-Holden</span> began manufacturing the first Holden, the 48/215, later known as the FX. GM had acquired the coach-building business of Adelaide’s Holden family in 1931. Holden’s had been manufacturing GM car bodies since 1923.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">43. Humphrey B. Bear After 50 years, Humphrey B. Bear last appeared on television in 2009. The bear that never said a word but entertained generations of growing South Australians and national audiences, is believed to have mouthed that it was costing too much for the show to go on. The costume is still waiting a new wearer, but Humphrey may yet return as an animation – and with a voice at last.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">J 44. Jindivik Target Drone, Woomera Rocket Park.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First tested at Woomera in 1952, Australia’s Jindivik would be used by airforces around the world. More than 500 have been made and exported so far.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">K 45. Letters written to Germany in the Kaurna language by Kaurna mission children in 1843: <span class="companylink">University of Adelaide</span>, Barr Smith Library A 12-year-old Kaurna boy, Wailtyi, was among children who wrote to Germany in copperplate script but in the Kaurna language, in the hope of being sent toys. The letters were returned to Adelaide on permanent loan in 2014 and are rare documents in the Kaurna language at the time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">L 46. Lake Eyre salt In July 1964, driver Donald Campbell had settled on the vast salt plains of Lake Eyre for his “Bluebird” assault on the world record. He was the first man to top 400 mph or about 650km/h in a wheel-driven car over the measured mile. It took him a further 11 kilometres to get back under the speed limit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">47. Colonel Light’s Troughton Improved Level, Royal Geographical Society (SA) Colonel William Light had learned the advantages of trigonometry for surveying while serving in the Peninsula War, and he put it to good use surveying Adelaide. The rapid advances in surveying equipment meant he soon moved on to a more accurate dumpy level, and his is held by the City of Adelaide Collection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">48. 1975 national Lyrebird Award dress, George Gross and Harry Watt In 1973, young fashion designers George Gross and Harry Watt set up shop in SA to make fashion clothing. They built a nationwide chain of fashion stores, clothing everyone from Joan Collins to Princess Diana.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">M 49. Mary MacKillop’s Rosary Mary MacKillop was canonised a saint in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. She first came to Penola in SA in 1860 and began teaching there in 1866. She soon founded the Sisters of St Joseph, dedicated to teaching young SA Catholics. Mary incurred the displeasure of some within the church when she uncovered a pedophile priest in Kapunda in 1870 and was later excommunicated for two years for insubordination, but her Josephites were able to return to their work in 1872. A museum being founded in Adelaide in her honour will contain her desk and part of the habit she wore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">50. The Mall’s Balls, Bert Flugelman, Rundle Mall Adelaide’s prime rendezvous spot consists of two large stainless steel balls, one balanced atop the other, and named for their prominent spot in Rundle Mall. When Bert, then a lecturer at the SA School of Art, installed them in 1977, he actually titled them Spheres. Locals prefer to say that Adelaide has balls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">51. Governor’s residence, Marble Hill On Black Sunday, January 2, 1955, one of the state’s biggest bushfires took out the governor’s summer residence, and nearly took the governor with it – not to mention Premier Tom Playford, who had to take cover in an open field at his Norton Summit home nearby. Marble Hill is finally being restored, with the help of Adelaide’s Michell family. The death toll of two was nothing like the statewide devastation of Ash Wednesday, 1983.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">52. Mawson’s sled, 1912-13, SA Museum SA’s famed geologist and explorer Douglas Mawson had to cut this Norwegian-made sled in half when he became the sole survivor of a three-man Antarctic crossing. Lieutenant Ninnis fell into a crevasse with most of their supplies and Xavier Mertz died as the remaining two made their long trek back to base, leaving Mawson unable to pull the whole sled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">53. PS Mayflower at Mannum, the oldest paddlesteamer in SA, built in NSW, 1884 Actually Mary Ann, built of red gum north of Mannum in 1851 was the very first paddle steamer on the Murray but does not survive. Its boiler so terrified its builders they ran away as the steam pressure built up and hid in the bushes. Luckily, it worked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">54. Dame Roma Mitchell’s glasses and glass case, History Trust of SA In 1965, Roma Mitchell became the first Australian woman to be a judge, appointed to the Supreme Court of South Australia. She was also the first female Queen’s Counsel, the first woman chancellor of an Australian university and the first woman governor of an Australian state when appointed SA’s Governor in 1991.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">55. A fragment of Mongers Mulberry Tree from Kangaroo Island, RGS (SA) Regarded as the first tree ever planted in South Australia, it is possible that it pre-dates the settlement of the state and was planted by the motley crew of early European residents on the island. Similar very old mulberry trees, also possibly dating before settlement, have been found along SA’s coastline, suggesting some of our earliest European settlers didn’t like publicity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">N 56. Naracoorte Caves In 1994, the Naracoorte Caves became SA’s only World Heritage site – and remains our only such site. Over 500,000 years, random animals fell into or died in the caves leading to the most comprehensive record of Australia’s – and the world’s – fauna, spanning ice ages, the extinction of Australia’s megafauna, just 60,000 years ago and the arrival of humans. Four of the 28 caves found so far are open to the public.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">57. Ngarrindjeri weaving, AGSA and SAM Basket weavers of Ngarrindjeri people in the Riverland and Murray Mouth have a continuous tradition older than European civilisation. It was a close call when Ngarrindjeri artist Yvonne Koolmatrie worked with the last weaver to learn the techniques for her world-famous art objects.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">58. Errol Noack’s last letter: National Vietnam Veterans Museum, Phillip Island, Victoria On May 20, 1966 Adelaide National Serviceman Errol Noack wrote from Vietnam to his aunt Lois about his impressions after his first 10 days in the Vietnam War. By the time she received it on June 2, Errol was dead, shot down on May 24, the first Australian “Nasho” to die in the Vietnam War.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O 59. Lowitja O’Donoghue’s $1 postage stamp In 1976, Lowitja O’Donoghue, born Lois O’Donoghue in SA’s remote Granite Downs in 1932, became the first Aboriginal woman to be awarded the Order of Australia. She was Australian of the Year in 1984. She also graces an <span class="companylink">Australia Post</span> stamp.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">P 60. Photocopiers. In your home and office In 1952, when “xeroxing” or dry photocopying was becoming all the rage in the US, two scientists at Adelaide’s branch of the Defence Standards Laboratories, Ken Metcalfe and Bob Wright, came up with a “wet” copying process that vastly improved the system and found many other uses besides. By the 1960s, the annual patent fees for their invention well exceeded the cost of running DSL.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">61. Pie floater An Adelaide delicacy, loved by gustatory adventurers around the world, the pie floater, a pie served floating in green pea soup, usually with a slash of Rosella tomato sauce to complete the picture, has managed to outlive the “pie carts” that sold them at all hours on the streets of Adelaide since the 1870s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">62. Playford’s power station. Port Augusta, now demolished South Australia learned to its cost during World War II that imported coal could not be relied upon and the city and industry was constantly subject to blackouts. Premier Tom Playford bit the bullet, nationalised the electricity business, and poured money into a Port Augusta power station linked to a new Leigh Creek coal field by a 250km railway line. For 70 years it was the mainstay of the state’s power supply.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">63. Prairie àÉragny, by Camille Pissarro, AGSA In the late 19th century, when the newly established Art Gallery of South Australia was busy collecting the best of Britain’s Victorian-era painters, it studiously ignored the revolution of French Impressionism taking place across the Channel. In 2014, it finally cracked, and bought a French Impressionist painting worthy of the name, albeit for $4.6 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">64. Proclamation of the Province of SA, State Records Read out to the assembled settlers at Holdfast Bay by Robert Gouger on December 28, 1836, the Proclamation was particularly pointed in its references to protecting the rights of the “Native Population”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">R 65. Ridley Stripper, Adelaide Hills Motor Restoration Club From 1842, when SA’s farm labourers – many of them experienced Cornish miners – discovered copper and gold, a drastic shortage of manpower to harvest grain crops resulted. A challenge was issued by the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of SA for a machine to harvest grain. Flour miller John Ridley developed his reaper-stripper in 1842-3, and in 1844 it won the A&HS prize. It is the most important technological development in agriculture of the era. All the world’s modern grain harvesters are descended from the Ridley Stripper, helped by John Ridley’s decision that it should be free of patent for all to use and further develop.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">66. Rib-Loc plastic piping Adelaide plastics engineer, Bill Menzel, developed the Rib-Loc system to make new pipes and repair old ones. His solution was an extruded plastic tape that interlocked when laid in a spiral. It meant a whole pipeline could be transported as a large spool of plastic, and made at the site as it was laid. The spool could expanded inside an existing faulty pipe to re-seal it. Since its introduction in 1984 it has become widely used around the world but hasn’t yet resolved the problem of Adelaide’s cracking water mains.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">67. RM Williams boots, well used Back in 1932, Reg Williams was struggling to feed his family who were doing it tough in the Gammon Ranges station country. An old saddle maker and one-time horse thief, Dollar Mick, was welcomed to their shanty. Dollar Mick taught Reg how to make boots from a single piece of leather, and SA’s legendary stock and station outfitters was born, now owned by international brand <span class="companylink">Louis Vuitton</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">S 68. Shearer steam car, 1899 NMM The Shearer brothers, farm implement manufacturers at Mannum, had been building one of Australia’s earliest self-propelled vehicles in their spare time since 1884. They drove it to Adelaide where it paraded the streets and gave rides. It was also the last Shearer steam car.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">69. Ship’s biscuit, SAMM Hard tack or ship’s biscuit was an unappetising, but long-lasting food used on long sea voyages to colonies like South Australia. It was usually a simple mixture of flour and water, with a dash of salt if you were lucky. More protein came from the weevils that often inhabited it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">70. Sia’s wigs South Australia’s international music celebrity Sia, made anonymous by her wigs, has sparked an <span class="companylink">eBay</span> craze for “Sia’s wigs”. The half-blonde, half-black wig with a fringe below the nose and a giant black bowtie on top sells for $15 plus postage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">71. Silver Epergne, 1788, SAMM <span class="companylink">The Adelaide Steamship Company</span> emerged as Australia’s largest shipping company after being set up in 1875 by SA pastoralists and businessmen to better control exports and passenger services in SA. This antique silver epergne was bought to decorate the Adelaide offices of the company.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">72. Six o’clock closing to end, Don Dunstan says, The Advertiser SA, the once “wowser state”, was the first to introduce early closing at 6pm, in 1916 during World War I, after holding a referendum. It came to be known as the 6 o’clock swill. In September 1967, South Australia was the last state to get rid of it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">73. Simpson washing machine, History Trust of SA Before automatic washing machines, Adelaide whitegoods manufacturer Simpson was making the most labour saving device in the home, the washing machine with a powered wringer rather than the modern spin cycle. It was a hit across Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">74. Charles Sturt’s cannon. RGS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This small cannon, found at Gol Gol on the River Murray, is probably the one taken by Charles Sturt on his epic voyage down the Murray in 1830.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">75. Sturt desert pea The floral emblem of South Australia grows mysteriously lush, brilliant and colourful in the Outback after rain.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">76. SOLA plastic spectacle lens Experimenting with the CR-39 plastic developed for World War II aircraft parts, Adelaide spectacles firm Laubman and Pank and the <span class="companylink">University of Adelaide</span> came up with the first scratch-resistant plastic spectacle lens. The company they formed, SOLA Optical, is now listed on the <span class="companylink">New York Stock Exchange</span>, and is the world’s largest manufacturer of the lens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">77. South Australia’s Deed of Settlement, SLA The signatories of this Deed of Settlement enabling the settlement of SA reads like a directory of Adelaide’s streets, including the names Gouger, Waymouth, Currie, Pirie, Rundle and Angas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">78. South Australian Flag In 1870, the colony of South Australia adopted its own flag. Variations followed until the present SA flag was adopted in 1904 with a piping shrike sharing the azure blue with a Union Jack.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">79. Stainless steel teeth braces Adelaide dentist Percy Begg’s design for less-intrusive braces in 1956 was adopted worldwide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">80. Stobie Pole, everywhere The lack of suitable timber in SA caused James Stobie, an engineer with the Adelaide Electric Supply Co, to invent the ugly but durable steel and concrete power line pole that would eventually bear his name. It was first used along North Tce in 1924.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">81. Storm Boy film set humpy, Goolwa, 1976 A humpy is a peculiarly Australian slang word that started as another word for an Aboriginal gunyah, but turned into something approaching a shack made from scrounged scrap. The Storm Boy humpy film set was built in the sand dunes along from Goolwa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">82 .Stump-jump plough, Ardrossan National Trust Museum Developed by the Smith brothers of Ardrossan on Yorke Peninsula in 1859, the stump-jump share plough opened up vast new tracts of the state and later the rest of the world to agriculture. Previously the deeply embedded mallee root stumps and the limestone reefs and rocks in many of SA’s agricultural districts had made ploughing there impractical even after the land was cleared.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T 83. Tasmanian Tiger, mounted, SAM Originally found in South Australia and Victoria as well as Tasmania, the thylacine was one of the early casualties of European arrival in Australia, made extinct through hunting in the 1930s. Now, thanks to samples held by the SA Museum, among other institutions, geneticists offer the possibility that thylacines may one day be recreated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">84. Test Site, Totem 1, Emu Field This obelisk with its radiation warning is at the site of Totem 1, the atmospheric test of an atomic bomb in October 1953 which is thought to have caused the “black mist” that afflicted so many Aborigines living and working in the remote South Australian northwest. The red phone on top is an Aussie irony not shared by North Korea or the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">85. The Woman Suffers, 1918, National Film Archive An early film made in South Australia and one of the nation’s earliest feature films. It was directed by Raymond Longford and starred his partner, Lottie Lyell. It is a tale of mistaken identities, seductions and ruined women. It opened in Adelaide to rave reviews and screened widely, helping fund Longford’s next big film, The Sentimental Bloke (1919), based on the poems of SA’s most famous poet, C.J. Dennis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">86. Andy Thomas’s cosmonaut suit, SAM The Russian cosmonaut suit was used by SA scientist Andy Thomas during his time on the Russian Mir space station in 1998, making Andy a dual citizen of a very exclusive club.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">87. Faith Thomas’s baggy green cap In 1958, Faith Thomas, who was born and grew up on the Aboriginal settlement at Nepabunna in the Flinders Ranges, made her debut for Australia in women’s cricket, and so became the first Aboriginal sportsperson to represent Australia. She put her unexpected and deadly fast yorkers off a short run-up down to her pastime of throwing rocks at galahs in the Flinders. <span class="companylink">Cricket Australia</span> belatedly issued her with a baggy green cap in 2006.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">U 88. Uranium oxide drums, SA’s Far North In September 1988, the first yellowcake or uranium oxide began to be shipped out of the world’s biggest uranium mine, Olympic Dam, to Adelaide for export to Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">V 89. Vickers Vimy Bomber, 1919, Adelaide Airport World War I saw the rapid development of the aeroplane. This one was used by the first Australians to fly from the UK to Australia. Sir Ross and brother Sir Keith Smith, both born in Adelaide, were knighted for the feat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">90. Vietnamese <b>refugee boat</b>, SAMM This model <b>boat</b> was hand-made by Vietnamese refugees, or “<b>boat</b> people”, while at the Pennington Migration Centre. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, after 1975, thousands of South Vietnamese refugees from the Communist takeover were to make the risky voyage to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">W 91. Wallaroo copper ingots, SAM South Australia’s 19th century copper discoveries were so huge that that Wallaroo eventually became one of the busiest ports in Australia, if not the Southern Hemisphere, the main export point for copper from Kapunda, Burra and the copper triangle on Yorke Peninsula.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">92. Arrest Warrant for Edward Gibbon Wakefield, <span class="companylink">National Museum of Australia</span> In 1826, the father of South Australia tried to win the fortune of a 15-year-old Ellen Turner by eloping with her. Given her dad was the High Sheriff of Cheshire, it was an ill-judged, though daring move, and Wakefield found himself in Newgate Prison, his very profitable marriage annulled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">93. HMAS Whyalla, City of Whyalla, Whyalla The first ship built at Whyalla shipyards was a corvette, launched in May, 1941 and in active service from early 1942. It worked until 1984, when the actual City of Whyalla bought it for $5000 and mounted it on its docks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">94. Winecask, bottleshops The collapsible bag of wine in a box was invented by Thomas Angove, of the Renmark-based wine family, in 1935. However, cutting a flap in the winebag and pegging it up after use was a big ask for drinkers, and it fell to wine merchant and wine maker David Wynn to introduce the airless flow tap and popularise the wine cask in 1970. It quickly won the attention of casual wine drinkers (and now packaged water drinkers) around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">95. Women’s vote petition, 1894, SA Parliamentary Library South Australia was second in the world to give women the vote, in 1895, and the first in the world to give them the right to stand for Parliament. The 11,600-signature petition included early activists such as Adelaide’s Muriel Matters, who went on to sway public opinion on women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">96. Wyrie Swamp Boomerang, SAM Australia’s oldest boomerang, about 10,000 years old, was found in a swamp near Millicent in the South-East of the state in the 1970s after not coming back. The swamp has yielded some of Australia’s – and the world’s – oldest wooden artefacts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">X 97. X-ray research spinthariscope of William Bragg, University of Adelaide Physics Museum Collection In the years before William and Lawrence Bragg won their Nobel Prize in physics for X-ray diffraction, they were at the <span class="companylink">University of Adelaide</span> investigating the properties of alpha particles produced by radioactive sources. This small instrument made in London by W Crookes in 1903 was used by Bragg.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Y 98. Yuendumu Doors, SAM In 1983 at Yuendumu in the Northern Territory, the headmaster of the school asked the local old men to paint the doors of the school in order to discourage the rampant grafitti. What he got was 30 early masterpieces of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement based on the elders’ story cycles. By 1995, when the doors were in disrepair, SA Museum anthropologist Philip Jones set off on a mission to have them brought to Adelaide and restored by Artlab’s conservateurs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Z 99. Zee-atlas showing SA’s coast, Amsterdam, 1658, RGS(SA) The earliest Europeans known to visit South Australian shores were with Pieter Nuyts aboard the Gulden Zeepaard, in January 1627. Pieter wasn’t impressed by what he saw. He should have come in winter. His ship sailed from the west as far as Ceduna, mapping the coastline. Maps of Australia from the 1640s included his work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">100. Zeta, NMM In 1963, Adelaide white goods manufacturer Harold Lightburn decided families needed a lightweight second car runabout, and came up with the Zeta, both as a sedan and a coupe. It had its detractors but many saw it as the seeds of an indigenous automotive industry. Buyers were fascinated to learn that it had no reverse gear. You switched off the engine, started it again in reverse and then you had four reverse gears! ●What do you think should be included in the South Australian Collection? Tell us at saweekend@adv.newsltd.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Australia on alert as Rohingya refugees set sail for <b>asylum</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paul Toohey </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>476 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <b>boat</b> has sailed from the south of Java bound for Australia carrying an estimated 25 Rohingya and Afghan <b>asylum</b> seekers, believed to be the first time in several years that such a <b>boat</b> has left Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Indonesian intelligence source said the small <b>boat</b> left late last week from Cidaun, which until 2013 was the most notorious departure point for <b>asylum</b> seekers in the Indonesian archipelago.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border Force Australia said it was unaware of the <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politicians have blamed New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern’s offer to resettle 150 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru on a new “pull” for refugees. However, others warn that the Rohingya crisis will encourage thousands to attempt to get to Australia regardless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 600,000 Muslim Rohingya are in despair in Bangladesh after fleeing Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, where they faced brutal repression from the military.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The potential influx risks causing new problems for Australia and Indonesia. There is deep sympathy for the plight of the Rohingya at the highest political levels in Jakarta.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia supports them as oppressed Muslims within their region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Sunday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazaar, sending a message of solidarity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The concern in Australia is that refugees will view the visit as an invitation to escape and get to Indonesia, putting them on Australia’s doorstep.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Blaxland, head of the <span class="companylink">Strategic and Defence Studies Centre</span> at ANU, recently said that there was “a high likelihood of a wave of refugees heading towards Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia that would make what we have seen at Manus and Nauru pale”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He warned that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, accused of atrocities that led to retaliation by the military, was inciting Rohingya refugees to jihad.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know dispossessed Muslim Rohingya are ripe for the picking by Islamic extremists and it would not be surprising to see a body of violent jihadists emerge from this space,” Mr Blaxland said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Operation Sovereign Borders was involved in three <b>boat</b> turnbacks last year, with the boats believed to have come from further afield than Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cidaun, north of Christmas Island, was the scene of tragedy in July 2013 when an overloaded <b>boat</b>, carrying Iranians and Sri Lankans, sank in heavy seas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The weather off the south of Java across to northern Australia is currently bad, with an active monsoonal trough bringing heavy rains. This will make any attempt by Border Force to turn back boats fraught.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Myanmar has done a deal with Bangladesh to take back the refugees, but it will be a long process and many of the Rohingya will refuse to return.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a high likelihood of a wave of refugees. John Blaxland, head of the <span class="companylink">Strategic and Defence Studies Centre</span> at ANU</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL TOOHEY </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>219 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <b>BOAT</b> has sailed from the south of Java bound for Australia carrying an estimated 25 Rohingya and Afghan <b>asylum</b> seekers, believed to be the first time in several years that such a vessel has left Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Indonesian intelligence source told <span class="companylink">News Corp</span> the small <b>boat</b> left late last week from Cidaun, which up until 2013 was the most notorious departure point for <b>asylum</b> seekers in the Indonesian archipelago.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border Force Australia said it was unaware of the <b>boat</b> and has no current on-water operations. Politicians have blamed New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern’s offer to resettle 150 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru on a new “pull” for refugees, however others warn the Rohingya crisis will see thousands attempting to get to Australia regardless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some 600,000 Muslim Rohingya are currently in crisis in Bangladesh after fleeing Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, where they faced brutal repression from the military.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The potential influx risks causing new problems for Australia and Indonesia. At the highest political levels in Jakarta there is deep sympathy for the plight of the Rohingya, whom Indonesia supports as oppressed Muslims within their region.On Sunday, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo visited Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazaar, sending a message of solidarity.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Boatpeople charged in heroin sting</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Samantha Hutchinson Victorian Political Reporter </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>541 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two Iranian <b>asylum</b>-seekers face an uncertain future and possible visa cancellation after allegedly being caught trying to import more than 12kg of heroin inside a roadworks ­machine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two men, who came to Australia by <b>boat</b> via Christmas ­Island, appeared ­at the Melbourne Magistrates Court last night in ­relation to the capture of opium resin estimated to have a street value of more than $16 million.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pair, from St Albans in Melbourne’s west, were arrested on Thursday in nearby Burnside Heights after a sting that began on January 9 when Australian Border Force officials picked up irregularities in an air cargo package that contained an asphalt-compacting machine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The package was then passed to the <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span>, where investigators found 12.4kg of opium resin hidden inside the base plate of the machine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police dropped off the parcel to the St Albans address and watched as a 38-year-old man and his 22-year-old accomplice allegedly loaded the parcel into ­another car and drove to the property in Burnside Heights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was there that police pounced on the younger man. They arrested the older man at work later in the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The men have been charged with importing and attempting to possess a marketable quantity of a border-controlled drug.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pair, who were released into the community in 2013, are living in Australia on bridging visas. If convicted, they face a maximum jail term of 25 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Offenders who are not Australian citizens sentenced to longer than 12 months in jail are subject to automatic visa cancellation and deportation to their home country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the likelihood of the ­offenders being deported to Iran is low because of Iran’s hardline stand in refusing to accept ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers and other citizens who have been forcibly ejected from Australia. It is understood that if they are convicted and ­jailed they will be handed a fresh bridging visa to cover them while in jail here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton declined to comment on the case while it was before the courts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The arrests come at a time when the new Home Affairs ­Department is trying to tighten the mandatory visa cancellation rules.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton has not ruled out expanding the criteria of the visa cancellation rules and has openly expressed frustration at the long delays between visa cancellation and the deportation of violent criminals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AFP acting commander of crime operations Mark Colbran praised the outcome of the drug bust as an example of the AFP and the ABF working together.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“To those believing they can evade law enforcement and ­import drugs into Australia, think again. You will get caught and may face significant time in prison,” Mr Colbran said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ABF’s acting regional commander in Victoria, Craig Palmer, said the force’s new detection methods and targeting systems when combined with co-ordinated police work were catching more criminals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The odds are stacked against anyone trying to import illicit drugs into Australia,” he said.“The message is simple: Australia’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies are aligned and resolute in their determination to combat the illicit drug trade. You’re going to get caught.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>293 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TWO <b>asylum</b> seekers who were given a second chance to stay in Australia have been charged with attempting to smuggle $16 million of opium to Melbourne through parcel post from Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Iranian nationals — Nader Khanmohammadi Ahmad Abad, 38, and Saeid Balagar, 22 — were arrested in Melbourne’s northwest suburbs on Thursday after a joint Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force operation.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Authorities began the investigation on January 9 after a Customs examination of an air cargo consignment identified the drugs concealed within an asphalt compacting machine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AFP investigators found 12.4kg of opium resin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal police conducted a controlled delivery to a house in St Albans on Thursday where the men accepted the delivery.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They later loaded the consignment into a vehicle and drove to a house in Burnside Heights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 38-year-old man then left for work and the remaining man was arrested. The older man was arrested by police later in the day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both were remanded last night for file hearings on Monday. The <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun understands they were given bridging visas by the Gillard government, having arrived by <b>boat</b> at Christmas Island in March 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AFP manager of crime operations, Acting Commander Mark Colbran, said it was once again an excellent example of the two agencies working together.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“To those believing they can evade law enforcement and import drugs into Australia, think again,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Craig Palmer, ABF acting regional commander Victoria, said the odds were stacked against anyone trying to import illicit drugs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The message is simple — Australia’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies are aligned and resolute in their determination to combat the illicit drug trade,” he said.rob.harris@news.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FROM THEN TO NOW</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1953: The Festival of Perth was born out of the<span class="companylink"> University of WA</span>’s summer school program. Opening on January 3 with a Perth Repertory Club production of Dark of the Moon, the festival highlight was British director Michael Langham’s production of Richard III. The first festival, in which the WASO also performed new Australian music alongside works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, attracted 42,000 people and met its £14,000 budget.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1954: The festival expanded its program and welcomed new collaborators, including the Art Gallery of WA and the recently formed WA Ballet, whose founder Kira Bousloff staged La Bal, Peter and the Wolf and Little Symphony.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1955: The festival welcomed greater film industry involvement as the J. Arthur Rank Organisation allowed a national exclusive screening of Renato Castellani’s film Romeo and Juliet. There were hopes this would lead to an international film festival included in future programs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1956: The City of Perth joined the festival enterprise as the program stepped beyond the UWA campus for its first official opening, a street parade and gymkhana and sports carnival for families at the WACA Ground and a water follies show at the Royal Kings Park Tennis Club. British pianist Irene Kohler was a special guest as the festival opened the new outdoor music shell in Supreme Court Gardens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1958: The festival included open air concerts at Supreme Court Gardens, Australia Day celebrations with massed bands and marching girls at Perth Oval and a home exhibition and trade fair at Perth Zoo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1959: The festival blazed a new trail with the world premiere of the James Penberthy opera Dalgerie, with libretto from Mary Miller (Durack) based on her book Keep Him My Country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1962: The innovation of a special children’s program was introduced for the first time. The festival opened on New Year’s Day to coincide with Vivien Leigh’s first performance in Robert Helpmann’s Old Vic production of Twelfth Night at His Majesty’s Theatre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1963: Channel Seven came on board as a sponsor to present Col Joye and the Joy Boys with Judy Stone and the Ray Price Quartet at the Royal King’s Park Tennis Club. The children’s program was expanded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1964: The internationally renowned Black Theatre of Prague made its first appearance with a production at the Playhouse Theatre. The New Fortune Theatre, built in a courtyard of the arts building at the<span class="companylink"> University of WA</span> and based on the Elizabethan original, was inaugurated with a production of Hamlet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1966: The 1966 program, an “avalanche of entertainment”, attracted 150,000 people. In an Australian first, the festival staged a spectacular son et lumiere pageant at Fremantle’s Old <b>Asylum</b> (now the Fremantle Arts Centre).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1967: A Festival Club opened at the Adelphi Hotel, down the road from the Playhouse Theatre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1972: The 20th festival claimed full international status with the return of Duke Ellington to Subiaco Oval and the WA debuts of the Paul Tortellier Trio, Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth. Rock superstars Led Zeppelin also joined the fray, playing a sold-out Subiaco Oval concert at which 500 disgruntled fans rammed the fence and set fires outside the gates because they could not get in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1973: The festival celebrated its 21st anniversary with the birthday of a sparkling new venue, the Perth Concert Hall. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his wife Margaret led the dignitaries at the opening, which includes a midnight-to-dawn ball for 1700 people. Slade, Status Quo, Lindisfarne, Harry Secombe and Henry Mancini performed during the festival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1975: The festival’s expansion continued into the city’s newest indoor stadium, with Sherbet and WASO Promenade Concerts at the Perth Entertainment Centre. Another landmark was the National Theatre Company’s WA premiere of Peter Schaffer’s Equus, starring Richard Todd, Joan Sydney and Robert Van Macklenberg.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1976: The 24th festival was the last for long-time director John Birman, who worked with founder Fred Alexander from the outset and was appointed executive officer of the festival committee in 1954. Another Birman legacy is Perth’s first FM stereo radio station 6UVS, later known as RTR, which began transmitting from UWA at 6.45pm on April 1, 1977. Birman established the station to broadcast arts programs to wider audiences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1977: The festival celebrated its Silver Jubilee under new English-born director David Blenkinsop.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1979: To celebrate the State’s 150th birthday, the free opening concert featured the famous pipes, drums and regimental band of Her Majesty’s Scots Guards. Other guests included Tom Stoppard, Count Basie, Timothy West and Cleo Laine. Young actor Mel Gibson appeared with Angela Punch (McGregor) in John Bell’s Nimrod production of Romeo and Juliet at the Octagon Theatre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1980: Comic, composer and author Spike Milligan made his festival debut with a two-week season at the Regal Theatre but was refused entry to the Ascot Racecourse members bar because he wore shorts and sandals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1982: The festival’s support for indigenous theatre enabled the world premiere of The Dreamers by Jack Davis through the Swan River Stage Company. Circus Oz made its Perth debut, as did the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1983: The 1983 festival hosted the launch of the WA Youth Theatre Company and the first festival appearance of the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1985: The festival had a major role in launching the annual Leeuwin Estate concerts after Blenkinsop cut a deal with winery owner Dennis Horgan for the London Philharmonic Orchestra to play among the Margaret River vines in return for sponsoring the orchestra’s festival appearance in Perth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1987: The festival opened on January 30 to coincide with the final rounds of the America’s Cup in Fremantle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1988: The festival presented its biggest ever program as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. Blenkinsop dynamited parts of the Boya Quarry to create an amphitheatre for Peter Brook’s dusk-to-dawn English dramatisation of the Indian folk epic The Mahabharata. He also arranged for early morning flights to be diverted to ensure no distraction from the magical effect of The Mahabharata ending with the first rays of sunlight running down the quarry rock face and shooting light into the audience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1990: A rambunctious musical theatre show from Broome called Bran Nue Dae was one of the festival hits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1997: Dickon Oxenburgh, Andrew Ross and Robert Juniper teamed up for the Black Swan’s world-premiere adaptation of Randolph Stow’s The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea. Yirra Yaakin launched its first professional season with David Milroy’s Runamuk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1998: Neil Armfield’s four-hour stage adaptation of Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet for Black Swan and Company B Belvoir was an instant masterpiece in a blockbuster festival. Staged in the Endeavour boatshed in Fremantle, the Nick Enright-Justin Mojo play ended with the opening of seaward doors and a mesmerised audience witnessed the stage <b>boat</b> float away into a starry summer night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1999: The 47th annual festival was the last for David Blenkinsop after 23 programs. He bowed out dedicating his last program to his family and to the centenary of the birth of festival founder Fred Alexander, who died in 1997.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2000: The millennium ushered in a new four-year cycle for artistic directors and a name change to the Perth International Arts Festival. Starting with a Survival Concert of indigenous music on Australia Day, Irishman Sean Doran presented the most ambitious program in festival history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2003: A starkly beautiful series of steel figures on a remote salt lake was a legacy from the Golden Anniversary Festival, the last of four programmed by Doran. The Inside Australia installation, a PIAF commission by British sculptor Antony Gormley, focused international attention on Lake Ballard near Menzies, 100km north of Kalgoorlie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2004: Under its first Australian-born and female artistic director Lindy Hume, the festival celebrated journeys and intersections. Hume presented works of scale and splendour befitting the centenary of His Majesty’s Theatre, such as Richard Mills and Peter Goldsworthy’s new opera Batavia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2006: A young musical comedian called Tim Minchin made his festival debut with his cabaret show Darkside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2008: Under new artistic director Shelagh Magadza, the little-known story of Kimberley resistance fighter Jandamarra came to the stage in the cross-cultural theatre production from Black Swan Theatre Company and Bunuba Films.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2009: Cate Blanchett and the Sydney Theatre Company’s world-premiere season of The War of the Roses had top billing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2012: The festival celebrated its 60th year as it heralded in new artistic director Jonathan Holloway with a morning chorus at Cottesloe beach. Feathers fly the following night in St Georges Terrace when a flock of angels from France’s Les Studios de Cirque tumble to earth in the white blizzard of Place des Anges.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2015: The Giants strode through the streets of Perth as Holloway bid an epic farewell with his fourth and final program. More than 1.4 million people lined the streets in the CBD over three days to see French company Royal de Luxe pull the strings on the giant Little Girl and Deep-sea Diver as they enact a story inspired by the Anzac centenary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2016: New artistic director Wendy Martin focused on home-grown talent to begin the first of her four festivals. The Chevron Festival Gardens moves to Elizabeth Quay to help open Perth’s new waterfront precinct.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2017: The 65th festival spoke with a multiplicity of voices, whether gathered in vast numbers in Kings Park for Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak or sharing intimate stories one-on-one with artist Amy Sharrocks for Museum of Water.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>997 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAWeekend</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Call yourself an Aussie? Prove it with our Australia Day weekend quiz 1 In 1995, which artist created 16 designs for a new Australian flag at the request of prime minister Paul Keating: (a) Ken Done (b) Pro Hart (c) Bill Leak?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2 Who has been the only female governor-general?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">3 What was the term for the locals who assisted Australian soldiers during the World War II New Guinea campaign?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4 The current governor of which state arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> as a <b>refugee</b> from South Vietnam in 1977?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5 Which character did Banjo Paterson refer to as “the King of the Overland”? 6 Which two Australians recorded the 2016 album Friends for Christmas? 7 Which organisation, launched in Melbourne in 2007, was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8 Which Australian National Heritage listed site is reputedly the world’s largest war memorial?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">9 What was demolished on the site of the Sydney Opera House in 1958: (a) cattle saleyard (b) shopping centre (c) tram depot?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">10 Which Brownlow Medallist and premiership-winning AFL player has tattooed on his stomach the last words reputedly said by Ned Kelly?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">11 Which character did Magda Szubanski play in the TV show Kath & Kim? 12 Which South Australian senator was an Australian rowing representative? 13 Who will represent Australia at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest? 14 Was the 1814 book, A Voyage to Terra Australis, written by James Cook or Matthew Flinders?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15 Which federal minister grew up on a cherry farm in the Adelaide Hills? 16 Which New South Wales town is known as “the astronomy capital of Australia”? 17 What was the nickname of the Queensland government logo introduced during the premiership of Peter Beattie, so named because of its resemblance to a hamburger with chips?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">18 Which animal did indigenous Australians call a warrigal?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">19 Named after which Yorkshire-born explorer of Australia are a river, state library, national park, federal electorate, town, high school and two submarines?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">20 South Australia’s Kyle Chalmers won the 2016 Olympic 100m freestyle gold medal after being in which place at the turn: (a) third (b) fifth (c) seventh?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">21 Egypt is in which Australian state/territory?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">22 In which month in 2017 did federal parliament legalise same-sex marriage? 23 Does New South Wales or South Australia have the larger area? 24 Is the 20c or $1 coin heavier?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">25 Which dictionary is generally regarded as the authoritative source on Australian English?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">26 The mass breakout of Japanese prisoners-of-war occurred at Cowra, NSW, in: (a) 1940 (b) 1942 (c) 1944?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">27 Which major river officially begins at the confluence of the Culgoa and Barwon rivers in New South Wales?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">28 Shearing the Rams is an 1890 painting by which artist?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">29 The Cobb & Co Museum is in which Queensland regional city? 30 Which Australians have the top three Test batting averages of players who have batted in a minimum of 20 innings?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">31 Which future New South Wales governor commanded the flagship, HMS Sirius, during the First Fleet’s historic 1787-88 voyage to Australia?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">32 Adelaide was named after the wife of which British monarch? 33 Who has been the only governor-general to serve in two millennia? 34 Ghana previously had the same name as which Queensland city? 35 Which “big thing” tourist attraction is in Kingston SE?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">36 In 1925, which 58-year-old former prime minister married a 23-year-old waitress?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">37 Name Muriel’s home town in the 1994 movie Muriel’s Wedding. 38 Is the Great Barrier Reef or Great Dividing Range longer? 39 What was the maiden name of Princess Mary of Denmark?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">40 Who is the only Adelaide Crow to have won the Brownlow Medal? 41 Which bushranger was known as the “gentleman bushranger”? 42 Which New South Wales governor established an observatory at Parramatta in the 1820s?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">43 “Heave away, you rolling king. Heave away, haul away. Heave away, oh hear me sing,” are lyrics from which song?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">44 Apart from Queen Elizabeth II, who was the only woman depicted on Australia’s first series of paper decimal currency banknotes?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">45 Which New South Wales town claims to be the “gateway to the real Outback”? 46 In 1997, which Western Australian businessman was stripped of his 1984 honour as an Officer of the Order of Australia?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">47 The Sound of White was the debut album of: (a) Delta Goodrem (b) Missy Higgins (c) Kylie Minogue?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">48 Which constellation is depicted on the flag of Christmas Island? 49 Australia’s largest known onshore earthquake, with a 7.2 magnitude, occurred in which state in 1941?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">50 In 2016, which 15-year-old became the first person born in the 2000s to represent Australia at senior level when she played for the Matildas?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ANSWERS 1 (a) Ken Done 2 Dame Quentin Bryce 3 Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels 4 South Australia (Hieu Van Le) 5 Saltbush Bill 6 John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John 7 <span class="companylink">ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) </span>8 Great Ocean Rd 9 (c) tram depot 10 Ben Cousins (Such is life) 11 Sharon Strzlecki 12 Senator Cory Bernardi 13 Jessica Mauboy 14 Matthew Flinders 15 Julie Bishop 16 Coonabarabran 17 Beattie burger 18 Dingo 19 John Oxley 20 (c) seventh 21 Queensland 22 December 23 South Australia 24 20c coin 25Macquarie Dictionary26 (c) 1944 27 Darling River 28 Tom Roberts 29 Toowoomba 30 Don Bradman (99.94), Steve Smith (63.75), Adam Voges (61.87) 31 John Hunter 32 King William IV 33 Sir William Deane (1996-2001) 34 Gold Coast 35 The Big Lobster 36 Chris Watson 37 Porpoise Spit 38 Great Dividing Range 39 Donaldson 40 Mark Ricciuto (2003) 41 Captain Thunderbolt (Frederick Wordsworth Ward) 42 Sir Thomas Brisbane 43Bound for South Australia44 Caroline Chisholm 45 Bourke 46 Alan Bond 47 (b) Missy Higgins 48 Southern Cross 49 Western Australia (Meeberrie Station) 50 Ellie Carpenter</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Ardern defiant on <b>asylum</b>-seeker proposal</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON RACHEL BAXENDALE </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New Zealand Prime Minister ­Jacinda Ardern has been forced to defend her offer to take 150 ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers from Manus ­Island after Australian intelligence directly linked the proposal to increased chatter among ­people-smugglers trying to sell New Zealand as a destination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an escalation of the tensions over the issue, Malcolm Turnbull yesterday reminded New Zealand that it was a direct beneficiary of Australia’s border protection operations, after confirming intelligence reports that people-smugglers had been “very busy in marketing and promoting New Zealand as a destination recently”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A number of boats, people-smuggling boats, that have been intercepted by our Operation Sovereign Borders, stated that they were planning to go to New ­Zealand, so that’s been the case,” Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“New Zealand benefits from our Operation Sovereign Borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The people-smugglers are absolutely ruthless. They use all of the social media we use and they use it very skilfully and market any scrap of information that they can and so they were very busy in marketing and promoting New Zealand as a destination recently.” But Ms Ardern yesterday defended the offer to resettle people from Manus Island and Nauru, claiming it was “not new” and had been first made in 2013. “Chatter among people-smugglers has ebbed and flowed for many, many years … keeping in mind of course that Tampa was over 15 years ago, so that’s not a new issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m advised that none of the activity we have seen in recent times is unusual. I don’t want to comment on specific intelligence briefing and reports.” Ms Ardern said New Zealand would continue to work alongside Australia to tackle people-­smugglers, whom she described as ­“parasites”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian yesterday revealed that <b>asylum</b>-seekers aboard a <b>boat</b> intercepted by a naval patrol just before Christmas had told immigration officials that smugglers had informed them their destination was New ­Zealand. This followed the disruption by Sri Lankan authorities of two other people-smuggling ventures destined for New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor leader Bill Shorten ­yesterday appeared to question the intelligence reports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If the government really believe this, why are they concluding the American deal?” Mr Shorten said. “If the argument is that people may want to go to New Zealand, I’m sure that people want to go to America. If you follow (Home Affairs Minister Peter) Dutton’s logic, the only way to deter people from people-smuggling is keeping them indefinitely for the rest of their lives in settlements on Manus and Nauru.” Mr Dutton accused Mr Shorten of failing to grasp the issue and contradicted Ms Ardern’s comments, claiming there was evidence that New Zealand was being “pitched” to <b>asylum</b>-seekers as a destination. “The fact that we’ve stopped boats now for about three years doesn’t mean that the ­problem has gone away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The people-smugglers just trade in people like they do drugs or tobacco, prostitution and drugs,” Mr Dutton told Sydney radio station 2GB.ADDITIONAL REPORTING: GREG BROWN</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Leaders clash over claim NZ fuelling people smuggling</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>David Wroe </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>550 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his New Zealand counterpart are at odds over whether New Zealand's offer to take 150 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru has driven a rise in people-smuggling operations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Mr Turnbull was asked yesterday whether New Zealand's offer to take 150 refugees had pushed up the number of people-smuggling boats captured by Australia's border protection system, Mr Turnbull appeared to confirm the claim, saying "a number of" such boats intercepted by Australian authorities stated they were ultimately aiming to settle in New Zealand.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said "ruthless" people smugglers had been "very busily marketing and promoting New Zealand as a destination recently".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"New Zealand benefits from our Operation Sovereign Borders."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former conservative New Zealand leader John Key originally made the offer to former prime minister Julia Gillard in 2013 and reiterated it in 2016.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The same offer was repeated by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern late last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian newspaper cited intelligence officials yesterday as saying the New Zealand offer had pushed up people-smuggling activity and that at least three recent boats had been trying to reach Australia through the "back door" of New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Ms Ardern rejected this claim, saying: "I am advised that none of the activity that we've seen in recent times is unusual."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She said the "chatter amongst people smugglers has ebbed and flowed for many, many years".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The disagreement came as a second group of Manus Island refugees - a planeload of 40 men mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan - left Papua New Guinea bound for the US under the resettlement deal with Washington.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The men left aboard a <span class="companylink">Philippine Airlines</span> flight yesterday morning. They brought to 94 the total number of US-bound refugees who originally sought <b>asylum</b> in Australia by <b>boat</b> but ended up in detention camps on either Manus Island or Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deal for the US to accept up to 1250 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru - helping ease acute political and humanitarian concerns that have dogged Australia's offshore detention system for years - was struck by former US president Barack Obama and Mr Turnbull and upheld after a famously testy conversation the Prime Minister held with President Donald Trump.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian government sources confirmed 40 people had left PNG. This leaves about 1500 refugees on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Advocate Ian Rintoul from the <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition</span> said the group of 40 men were mainly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, with smaller numbers from Myanmar and Bangladesh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said he expected a further 130 people from Nauru to fly to the US around February 11 and 12. But refugees from Iran and Somalia were not being accepted because those countries are blacklisted under Mr Trump's policy banning all migration from six terrorism-prone nations, he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor leader Bill Shorten said if the New Zealand offer were a risk, the same logic would apply to the US deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If you follow [Home Affairs Minister Peter] Dutton's logic to its conclusion, the only way that you could deter people from people smuggling is keeping them indefinitely for the rest of their lives in settlements on Manus and Nauru. I don't even think he believes that," he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>NZ offer fuels smuggle trade</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON NATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR, EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1007 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New Zealand’s offer to resettle 150 <b>asylum</b>-seekers from Manus ­Island late last year is believed to have prompted an escalation in people-­smuggling operations, with intelligence officials claiming at least three boats had recently sought to test the shift in policy and use the country as a “back door” to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian has confirmed that <b>asylum</b>-seekers aboard a <b>boat</b> intercepted by a naval patrol just before Christmas had told immigration officials that smugglers had told them their destination was New Zealand.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood that Sri Lankan authorities late last year also disrupted two people-smuggling ventures in their territory in which the <b>asylum</b>-seekers believed that they were bound for New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Intelligence operations detected increasing “chatter” in the past three months in which New Zealand was specifically mentioned as a destination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A source said there was ­evidence that the apparent rise in people-smuggling activity marketing New Zealand had followed the Ardern government’s offer to take <b>asylum</b>-seekers from Australian offshore detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They said there was little likelihood that any <b>boat</b> would reach New Zealand, leaving Australian authorities to deal with any rise in smuggling operations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Newly elected Prime Minister Jacinda Arden late last year criticised Australia’s offshore processing policy and offered to take 150 men from Manus Island — an offer first made by the Key government in 2013. It is believed that New Zealand agencies have been alerted to the developments through the Five Eyes intelligence network of which New Zealand and Australia are members.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The diplomatic row over Manus Island is unlikely to subside. The Australian government claims it has been forced to roll out new deterrence measures in Sri Lanka, including a media blitz in active people-smuggling regions warning that those seeking to travel to Australia or New Zealand will not get past the strengthened maritime defence net.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last month Australian ­border-protection authorities intercepted a people-smuggling <b>boat</b> with 29 Sri Lankans on board.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was reported at the time that the Sri Lankans had been headed for Australia and had been intercepted off the coast of Western Australia. However, it has since been revealed that the passengers told Australian authorities that they had left Sri Lanka in mid-­November intending to travel to New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Operation Sovereign Borders launched a new anti-smuggling campaign three weeks ago using the recent return of the 29 people claiming to be headed for New Zealand as evidence that Australia’s policies had not changed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A source within the new ­Department of Home Affairs said there had been recent “high level” chatter picked up from source countries such as Sri Lanka and transit countries such as Indonesia in which New ­Zealand was being pushed as an <b>asylum</b>-seeker destination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It confirms what our intelligence has been telling us: people-smuggling syndicates remain active in our region and continue to market their services using false promises of settlement in Australia or New Zealand,” the source said. “Whether or not people-smugglers genuinely intend for their boats to reach New Zealand, it is clear that they are using publicity around New Zealand’s ­resettlement offer to market their services to vulnerable people in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.” The Turnbull government ­yesterday was reluctant to target the New Zealand government ­directly, instead blaming Bill Shorten for supporting the deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton accused the Opposition Leader of risking a new wave of <b>asylum</b>-seekers as Mr Dutton met for the first time this year with the heads of intelligence, border control and policing agencies now under his portfolio.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The national-security briefing including Department of Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo, ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis, AFP commissioner Andrew Colvin Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission chief executive Michael Phelan, <span class="companylink">AUSTRAC</span>’s Nicole Rose and Australian Border Force acting commissioner Michael Outram.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton told The Australian Mr Shorten’s support for the New Zealand offer was irresponsible and could undermine Australia’s border control efforts. “Bill Shorten flying a kite on New Zealand resettlement has given the people-smugglers a product to sell again,” he said. “There is no doubt vulnerable people will be put on boats because of Bill Shorten’s statements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Even after 800 boats and 50,000 people in detention, Labor has still not learnt its lesson: if you weaken your borders the people-smugglers will take advantage of you.” Mr Shorten has backed Ms Ardern’s offer and urged the Turnbull government to take up her deal, claiming it was similar to an agreement with the US to resettle families from Nauru. “If New Zealand want to take some of these people and PNG and these people are happy to go to New Zealand, why are we getting in the way of a fair solution,” Mr Shorten said in November.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has repeatedly rejected Ms Ardern’s offer on the basis that it would create “pull” factors for <b>asylum</b>-seekers to risk taking hazardous <b>boat</b> journeys to New Zealand, believing they could one day make it into Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Ardern’s criticism of Australia’s policy followed a stand-off on Manus Island when more than 400 detainees refused to leave the centre to go to new accommodation, claiming that their safety would be put at risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Ardern’s office declined to respond last night to the developments cited by The Australian or Mr Dutton’s comments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Manus Island has been the subject of long-running claims by human rights organisations that the conditions represent a human rights violation. “I see the human face of this and I see the need and the role New Zealand needs to play,” Ms Ardern said in November. “I think it’s clear that we don’t see what’s happening there as acceptable; that’s why the offer’s there.”Opposition border protection spokesman Shayne Neumann reasserted Labor’s support for the New Zealand deal but accused the government of undermining its own policy.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Australia still stopping boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>378 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New Zealand’s Prime Minister unwise on border protection</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On one level, given many politicians in Australia have failed to comprehend the basics of border protection during two decades of trauma, it was hardly surprising that the novice New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was so naive on the issue. Yet, having been elected to lead her country last year, she was foolish to implicitly criticise her nation’s largest and closest neighbour over Manus Island and <b>refugee</b> policy. “I see the human face of this and I see the need and the role New Zealand needs to play,” she said in November, mistaking virtue-signalling for national leadership. “I think it’s clear that we don’t see what’s happening there as acceptable, that’s why the offer’s there.” Her criticism of Australia’s policy came with an offer to resettle 150 refugees; it was rejected for fear it would encourage more <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Ardern was warned that in this volatile area even her ill-informed words could add to the human tragedy. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said boats had previously been stopped in the Torres Strait, planning to track south along Australia’s east coast en route to New Zealand. “We have put many hundreds of millions of dollars into a defence effort to stop those vessels,” he said. “We do that, frankly, without any financial assistance from New Zealand.” Mr Dutton was angered by the intrusion and sent a retort not just across the ditch, but across the seas to prospective people-smugglers. “If new boats arrive tomorrow those people aren’t going to Auckland,” he insisted, “they’re going to Nauru.”But our exclusive report that boats intercepted last month by Australia and Sri Lanka were bound for New Zealand underlines how Ms Ardern’s unwise intervention might have been counter-productive. Australia’s tough border protection policies have prevented <b>boat</b> arrivals, processed most people from Manus Island and Nauru, and saved countless lives. These efforts must not be undermined by those who have never bothered to understand the forces at play nor the strategies designed to restore order to our immigration system, resettle genuine refugees, put people-smugglers out of business and save desperate lives.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b>'s big dream now a global success</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Cara Waters </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>763 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>38</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Migrants are shaking up small business, writes Cara Waters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The innovative tailoring of Karla Spetic's eponymous label is a runway regular at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the glamorous world of high-end fashion is a long way from Spetic's arrival in Australia as a <b>refugee</b> in 1993.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Spetic was 11 when she fled war-torn Croatia with her mother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's something obviously I would never forget," Spetic says. "It was a shock going to the complete other side of the world but I think Mum really had no choice."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now the girl who arrived in Australia unable to speak English runs a successful fashion label that turned over about $500,000 in 2016 and has customers throughout the globe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I really had an itch to do something of my own," Spetic says. "I had a lot of ideas and I wanted to bring those ideas to life. I was really very impatient and I had a vision and I really wanted to do my own thing. I didn't know how it would happen, I didn't have any business knowledge as such, but I did the first collection and once I received the orders, I had to make them and it snowballed from there."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Spetic's experience has made her passionate about supporting migrant and <b>refugee</b> businesses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I couldn't even think how it would be to arrive here on a <b>boat</b> or when you are literally seeing people dying in front of you," she says. "We all need to be willing to accept people in need and not judge based on their religion or background or what they have. Mum and I came here with nothing and were able to make a life for ourselves."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Migrants such as Spetic run one-third of Australian small businesses, with the CGU Migrant Small Business Report published on Monday showing high levels of innovation and ambition among migrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report, based on EY Sweeney research involving more than 900 business owners, found 83 per cent of migrant business owners started their first business venture after moving to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of those surveyed, 23 per cent started their business to try out an innovative or new idea, in comparison to 16 per cent of non-migrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The research also shows high levels of ambition and growth, with 47 per cent of migrant business owners aiming to generate higher revenue in the next five years, compared to 38 per cent of non-migrants. One in three migrant business owners surveyed are planning on growing their business with new hires.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kate Wellard, small business spokeswoman for CGU Insurance, says the research helps challenge perceptions that migrants are taking more than they're giving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This research shows migrant business owners are creating jobs, contributing to our economy, giving back to our communities and making our culture richer, despite the cultural barriers," she says. "This contribution deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the research also raises questions about whether Australia may be becoming less welcoming to new migrants, finding that those who have arrived more recently and Gen Y migrant business owners are more likely to report they have been affected by racism or discrimination, or to feel their background has hindered their success.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Migrant business owners surveyed were more likely to feel they have difficulties attracting customers, with 46 per cent highlighting this as a concern compared with 41 per cent of non-migrants, and 20 per cent having trouble accessing skilled workers compared to 16 per cent of non-migrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">David Peng, founder of Muay Thai Body Fit in Melbourne, says language barriers have been an issue for him as a migrant entrepreneur.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peng's mother was pregnant with him when she came to Australia as part of the government's Cambodian <b>Refugee</b> Program in the 1980s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peng says while the opportunity to run his own business has been available to him in Australia, it has been difficult for his family to understand entrepreneurship as a vocation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It was not knowing what was in store and [my] parents just wanted me to settle down and have a normal job like everyone else," he says. "Most Asian parents think a normal job is to work in the bank or something like that."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peng says Muay Thai Body Fit is still "building up" with turnover of under $100,000 and just two employees, but he has big plans. "I want my class to be in every gym in Australia and to continue to grow."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beginning this month, look out for a series of highly anticipated offerings from <span class="companylink">Amazon</span> Prime and <span class="companylink">Netflix</span>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘Until recently, all of television has been about selling,” wrote David Simon some time ago, discussing the success of his award-winning crime drama The Wire, that rich and layered portrait of Baltimore. “Not selling story, of course, but selling the intermissions to that story.” Westerns and police procedurals and legal dramas, soap operas and situation comedies, he argued, were conceived by industry professionals, then shaped by corporate entities “to calm and soothe as many viewers as possible, priming them with the idea that their future is better and brighter than it actually is, that the time is never more right to buy and consume.” These days as the era of so-called peak TV becomes even more overwhelming, with TV no longer wrapped around advertising, streaming outlets making original content for us to devour seem to have tripled in the space of a year or so; the only product being sold is the programming itself. And if in the past 12 months we have been treated to more varied TV than ever before, this year appears simply awesome to anyone desperate to find new shows to love.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Amazon</span> Prime Video, which came to our attention last year, has already released early episodes of the eight-part <span class="companylink">BBC</span> crime thriller McMafia to customers in more than 200 countries and territories. Starring James Norton, David Strathairn and Juliet Rylance, and created by Hossein Amini (whose credits include the Ryan Gosling film Drive) and James Watkins (The Woman in Black, Eden Lake), the series is inspired by Misha Glenny’s bestselling nonfiction book, described as “a fearless, encompassing, wholly authoritative investigation of the now proven ability of organised crime worldwide to find and service markets driven by a seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And <span class="companylink">Amazon</span> Prime Video’s original Indian series Breathe, a psychological drama, makes its international debut on Friday. The eight-parter follows maverick Mumbai cop Kabir Sawant, played by Bollywood actor Amit Sadh, tracking a series of seemingly unconnected deaths. They lead to an unlikely suspect who is exploring the slim possibility of saving his dying son’s life. (<span class="companylink">Amazon</span>, in an audacious programming initiative, has actually commissioned 17 Indian series, including, Bodhidharma: Master of Shaolin, Gursimran Khamba’s The Ministry starring Irrfan Khan, and Mirzapur by Ritesh Sidhwani.) <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> shows no signs of slowing down ­either, apparently looking to increase its original offerings until they make up half of the service’s entire library, aiming to spend $7 billion on content through this year. Peak TV is on the verge it seems, as the industry joke goes, of becoming Peak Netflix. Streaming hits such as 13 Reasons Why, David Fincher’s intriguing Mindhunter, and the final eight-episode season of House of Cards, without Kevin Spacey and now centred on Claire Underwood — played by the brilliant Robin Wright — all return through the year, alongside several exciting new series.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the first TV show from legendary filmmakers the Coen brothers, makers of True Grit and No Country for Old Men; it’s a western anthology series apparently intertwining six different story­lines from the American frontier and featuring a cast that includes James Franco, Zoe Kazan and Tim Blake Nelson.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And there’s also Maniac, based on the 2014 Norwegian series about a guy who lives a fantasy life in his dreams but in reality is locked up at an institution, directed by True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga, a dark comedy series that reunites Oscar winner Emma Stone with her Superbad co-star Jonah Hill. And early next month <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> releases Altered Carbon, a series based on the classic cyberpunk noir novel by Richard K. Morgan, described as “an intriguing story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal, set 300 years in the future”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Also look out for a new interview program, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, bringing the former Late Show host out of retirement; it’s expected late in the year, with Barack Obama making his only talk show appearance since leaving the White House, as Letterman’s first guest. The guest list includes George Clooney, Malala Yousafzai, Jay-Z, Tina Fey and Howard Stern.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there’s the <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> reboot of hit reality series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, returning next month. <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> says the revival will move far beyond the confines of New York City to “turn red states pink ... one makeover at a time”. and promises some tough missions for the new Fab Five. “If the original round was about tolerance, this time it is about acceptance”, series creator David Collins says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foxtel is fighting back against the streaming juggernauts as <span class="companylink">BBC</span> First leads the way with several high-end dramas. The most explosive, in more ways than one, is Gunpowder, the story of the activist Guy Fawkes’s failed plot to blow up the House of Lords in the 17th century, starring Game of Thrones favourite Kit Harington. Then there’s The Man in an Orange Shirt, the screenwriting debut of British novelist Patrick Gale that tells two love stories, 60 years apart — stories linked by family and a painting, with a ­secret that echoes down the generations. Featuring a cast including Vanessa Redgrave, it charts the challenges to, and huge changes in, gay lives from World War II to the present day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Late in February, look out for Benedict Cumberbatch in The Child in Time, about a couple grappling with the disappearance of a child, adapted from Ian McEwan’s <span class="companylink">Whitbread</span> Prize- winning novel, a lyrical and heartbreaking exploration of love, loss and the power of things unseen. There’s also a haunting, sumptuous adaptation of Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist, one of last decade’s fastest-selling debut novels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foxtel’s Showcase channel presents Here and Now from Alan Ball (Six Feet Under), a 10-part drama focused on a multiracial family, starring Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins and centred on three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia plus one biological child, who find their bonds tested when one of the children begins seeing things the others cannot. Showcase also premieres <span class="companylink">HBO</span> comedy series Barry, written and directed by Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live), the story of ex-Marine Barry (Hader), a hit-man from the midwest who moves to Los Angeles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fox8 has S.W.A.T., the new US crime drama starring Criminal Minds’ Shemar Moore as a sergeant tasked to run a specialised tactical unit that is the last stop in LA law enforcement. And following the success of Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein, Antonio Banderas has been cast as Pablo Picasso in season two of National Geographic’s scripted drama Genius.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Also watch out for local productions from Foxtel, especially FremantleMedia’s re-imagining of Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, plunging viewers into the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine’s Day 1900. And Goalpost Pictures’ Fighting Season, a complex, character-driven drama from Blake Ashford about Australian soldiers returning from Afghanistan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If local historical programs are your speed, History’s Uncharted with Sam Neill features the charming actor retracing the route of Captain Cook’s three voyages to the Pacific.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">SBS</span> has its strongest line-up in memory, with two commissioned local drama series seemingly essential viewing. In Dead Lucky, ­Rachel Griffiths plays Detective Sergeant Grace Gibbs, obsessed with catching the armed robber who murdered her junior officer, while trainee constable Charlie Fung (Yoson An), blames Grace for the death of his best friend. Psychological thriller Safe Harbour, directed by the brilliant Glendyn Ivin (Gallipoli, The Beautiful Lie), stars Jacqueline McKenzie and Ewen Leslie. The lives of a group of friends on the sailing holiday of a lifetime change forever when they encounter a fishing <b>boat</b> overloaded with <b>asylum</b>-seekers seeking sanctuary in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ABC leads off mainly with some strong factual programming and what was once quaintly called “light entertainment”, including the expansive documentary series Hawke: The Larrikin and the Leader — timely, according to the ABC, “given today’s constant leadership crises, and the ongoing fragmentation of traditional politics”. Annabel Crabb returns with Back in Time for Dinner, following a modern-day Australian family as it discovers how the food we eat has changed over the past 60 years by immersing themselves in a different decade for each episode. And Peter Temple fans will be delighted at the rerun of Jack Irish, starring Guy Pearce as a Melbourne criminal lawyer who doesn’t do much that resembles the law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seven has announced the exciting series Australian Gangster, co-written by Gregor Jordan and journalist turned screenwriter Malcolm Knox, described by its veteran producer John Edwards as “a genre-bending crime drama series — confronting, affronting, touching and often laugh-out-loud crazy”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Nine offers a new instalment of the now decade-long Underbelly series focusing on that colourful gangster turned comedian Mark “Chopper” Read. Directed by the fine Peter Andrikidis, it should be terrific like Australian Gangster, even allowing for those tiresome advertisements.The rest of commercial free-to-air TV seems to fall into that evanescent realm critics like to call “forgettable TV”, defined by Dana Polan as “programming designed to be forgotten at virtually the very moment of its original viewing”.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JAMES CAMPBELL </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>932 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YOU HAVE to give it to the canny folk at <span class="companylink">Meat and Livestock Australia</span>. Having spent years training us to be believe it was our patriotic duty to eat lamb on January 26, they spotted that the controversy over this particular holiday wasn’t going to go away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sniffing the wind a couple of years ago, the ads promoting what they now coyly call their Summer Lamb campaign were shorn of all references to Australia Day.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This year’s effort, which features dancing teams of Left and Right-wing commentators eventually brought together by their shared love of a cutlet, strikes me as a clever acknowledgment that this row has now become one of those permanent schisms in our national life, like the republican “debate” that also isn’t going away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is an odd development for those of us old enough to remember how the world was before the Bicentenary in 1988. Before then nobody paid much attention to Australia Day — it certainly wasn’t treated as a sacred day that had to be celebrated on January 26; it was just a public holiday that fell on the last weekend of January. I don’t recall it inspiring passionate feeling one way or another. If you’d asked people about it I think people would have said they were grateful for the day off but could only regard with mixed feelings a holiday that celebrates the foundation of Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nowadays of course it’s a big deal: addresses by the governor-general and PM, fireworks, citizenship ceremonies and barbecues, to which, until this year, the ABC provided a soundtrack with its Triple J Hottest 100. Of course, as the mainstream’s passion for this holiday has grown so have the protests against what its enemies call Invasion or Survival Day. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised, given the whole point of life for a certain type of Left-winger is to be opposed to things the majority of the country likes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anyone could see that from the moment the ABC decided to side with them by sacking the Hottest 100 from January 26. This week the Greens leader Richard Di Natale upped the ante saying the day represented dispossession, theft, and the “ongoing genocide” and “slaughter” of Aboriginal people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If he really thinks that the Australia is engaged in “ongoing genocide” against the indigenous people of this continent, surely we shouldn’t be celebrating it on any of the other 364 days of the year either. I suspect Di Natale doesn’t really believe that. This is just a bit of virtue signalling to his people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the Greens point of view, this issue is a beautiful thing — even better than <b>boat</b> people, it’s another great attack line on the ALP. In their heart of hearts, all but the dumbest Greens voters know that, as cruel as it is, the alternative to offshore processing of <b>asylum</b> seekers would be thousands of deaths at sea and the eventual destruction of Australia’s legal immigration program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Calling for Australia Day to be moved is, in contrast, consequence free. Di Natale et al also know that a large number of Labor folk, both members and voters, agree with their position. Earlier this week, the ALP’s employment and workplace relations spokesman Brendan O’Connor was asked if there was a debate in the ALP about the date.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are always looking to reconcile the view of the nation, the sense of history,” he answered. “I think, for example, we’ve closed our minds to a lot of things that happened in the past that we may now re-examine … I think when I was growing up and going to school we didn’t learn enough about indigenous culture, indigenous history, to the point where I didn’t fully understand as a young boy the sophistication and the real remarkable story, which is our First Australians’ story and I think that’s a shame.” Hardly a ringing endorsement of the status quo. Similarly Linda Burney, the party’s human services spokeswoman and the first indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives, said that she didn’t see the date changing in the short term “but the date needs to be a day of reflection, as I said, and deep understanding of the truth of human history, which is a pretty fabulous one for all to celebrate in Australia”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is Australia. Deep reflection isn’t really our thing. The “debate” over Australia Day is, I suspect, only going to get shriller. Burney’s proposal that we keep January 26, but add an extra holiday to make it up to those who don’t like it, isn’t going to wash.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unlike the Labor Party, the Liberal and National Parties are united on this issue. They love Australia and will be reminding us of that love at every opportunity they get. And they know that the vast majority of Bill Shorten’s blue-collar base is with them on this one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s a cost-free exercise for them, just as it is for the Greens, with the added bonus that it takes them back to the good old days of the Howard era when talk of the “black-armband” view of Australia history first sold tickets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They also suspect that Shorten’s heart isn’t in a full-throated defence of Australia Day and the public will see that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">James Campbell is national politics editor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">james.campbell@news.com.au@J_C_Campbell</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Roadtrip | TASMANIA | This remote corner of Tasmania is home to many delights, writes Peter Munro.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Edge of the World is a wild and desolate place, beset by churning seas and angry little flies. Rolling waves drag pieces of driftwood the size of whole tree trunks onto the windswept beach.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bare logs are washed by the wind and currents into neat stacks on the sand, bringing a whiff of order to the mayhem. There's no land between this solitary stretch of the Tasmanian coast and Argentina, making it the longest uninterrupted expanse of ocean on Earth. Arriving here also marks an end point of sorts for our trip around the rugged and remote north-west.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On our first trip to Tasmania, we are exploring its loneliest little corner. Tasmania's unspoilt north-west has been largely spared the waves of tourism that have engulfed the state in recent years. But once you've hit the edge of the world, where to from here?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Inscribed on a stone cairn at the Edge, which sits at Gardiner Point, about 2½ hours' drive west of Devonport, is a poem inviting readers to cast a pebble "on the shore of Eternity". Visitors also tend to build makeshift shelters from the detritus that washes up on the beach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My two young daughters slowly erect a ragged fort from driftwood, stones and stray seabird feathers, marking out a front path and welcome mat with a stick in the sand. We're alone on the beach but for an elderly couple from Wagga Wagga, who are soon deterred by the sting of the sandflies. It's a scraggy but strangely beautiful setting - not least for the sheer joy of finding a small, untamed patch to briefly call our own.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a short drive to the mouth of the "wild" Arthur River, where vintage tourist boats putter between the pristine rainforest and coastal heaths of the Tarkine wilderness. But instead we head south on the spectacular Tarkine Drive, which is marked by towering trees and a constant spray of speed humps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The quiet road slowly winds its way back to the north-west coast and the picturesque town of Stanley, a magnet for tourists seeking lolly shops, quaint bed-and-breakfasts and convict relics. The wide roads and well-preserved buildings were a picture-perfect backdrop for the recent period drama The Light Between Oceans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But we're searching for something less refined. So we stop short at the Stanley Roadhouse for one of its renowned scallop pies. Stuffing sea creatures into savoury baked goods is a peculiar Tasmanian tradition. Why spoil a plump scallop in a pie? But you'll do far worse than the sweet molluscs and flaky pastry found here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We push on along the coastal road, passing lush paddocks with a hodge-podge of cows coloured black, white and brown. Our final destination is the seaside town of Wynyard, best known for its annual tulip festival and vintage car museum, which boasts one of the world's oldest Fords, a 1903 Model A.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wynyard is also home to the world's laziest seagulls, who can barely be bothered flying or even walking. There's a flock of them squatting in the riverside carpark as we arrive at Coastal Pods Wynyard, a wonderfully unconventional take on self-contained accommodation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The luxury pods are made from decommissioned shipping containers. Our two-bedroom pod is made from containers that once transported goods from China and the United States, with original wood floors and a glass atrium in between. The austere, industrial chic facade is balanced by stylish and smart interiors - from the light-filled reading nook to the glass doors opening onto the deck, where we roast marshmallows over the fire pit and watch fishing boats dock with their daily catch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some of their haul travels only a short distance to Wynyard Seafoods on the Wharf, which treats customers to tender fillets of fresh-caught fish, such as trevally and flathead - so long as you order before the kitchen closes, by about 7pm. For sweet tooths, it's a short drive to the rustic Bruce's Cafe, which overlooks the ocean and serves marvellous slices of banoffee pie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But we're here to explore some of the more unusual treats on offer in north-west Tasmania. So we sign up for an eccentric tour of Wynyard's little penguin colony. Guide Keith Chung has been offering free evening penguin tours for more than 20 years, for small groups who abide by certain rules: including no bright clothing or misbehaving minors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He leads us to the Doctors Rocks Conservation Area, five kilometres east of Wynyard, where we wait for the flightless birds to waddle up the sand. We hear them before we see them, pricking our ears in the dark at what sounds like small dogs barking in the water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I reckon I might be one of only a few people in the country who can translate penguin-ese into English," Chung says. We are told that common penguin-to-penguin conversations might include: "Hey, where are you?"; "Give us a kiss and a cuddle"; or "Go away or else!"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On a good night, up to 100 little penguins will emerge from the water, he says. Tonight, we see only a handful , including a hungry chick who has been abandoned by its parents and faces imminent death by starvation. "Penguins are not always cute and cuddly," Chung says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There's a dark humour to north-west Tasmania. You can sense it in place names, such as Devils Elbow Road, Dismal Swamp and the Road to Nowhere. Just off Murdering Gully Road, beyond fields of tulips and poppies (Tasmania grows up to 50 per cent of the planet's legal opiates), we take a cliff-top stroll along the dirt track to the 1880s Table Cape Lighthouse, the only operating lighthouse open for tours on mainland Tasmania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From our windswept perch, we can see the towering sandstone cliffs of Wynyard's Fossil Bluff, where the golden rocks have been stripped of ancient shells by eager collectors. In the other direction are the cool, clear waters of <b>Boat</b> Harbour Beach, where we reward ourselves after our walk with an ice cream at the well-stocked Harvest and Cater cafe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The small beach, nestled between rocky headlands, boasts rock pools and squeaky-clean sand. We sit by the water trying to spot some of the dolphins, seals and whales that occasionally swim by. Spotting other people on the beach is almost as challenging. This beautiful bay remains sparsely occupied, even on a warm and welcoming day. Somehow, this hidden gem remains unspoilt and solitary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stranger still is the sight of north-west Tasmania's most oddball tourist attraction. Tasmazia and the Village of Lower Crackpot sits in the Promised Land, midway between Devonport and Cradle Mountain.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The village motto of "fractis sed utilis" ("broken but useful" - just like a cracked pot) plays out across eight mazes and a model village, which is home to miniature buildings such as the School of Lateral Thinking and the Crackpot Angels Motorcycle Club.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We spend about half an hour in the botanical Great Maze, stumbling past signs for "Mr and Mrs B Hadd" and a memorial statue to plumbers (a toilet), before finding the path that leads to the cafe, where the kitchen serves plates of super-sized pancakes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's where we meet Brian Inder, 86, the resident laird, chieftain, chief magistrate and sheriff of Lower Crackpot. Mazes reveal a lot about people's characters, he says. There are leaders, followers, control freaks and criminal minds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Women tend to be better at navigating a maze than men. "Men try to be the big boss and end up getting lost. Women navigate by the things that are on the ground, like a tree or root - in a maze you find your way by those little things."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The former factory manager calls himself a "<b>refugee</b>" from Sydney. He bought a dairy farm here in 1973 and set about converting it into a loony land, where "fun and laughter rule". Tasmania's north-west suits eccentrics, artists, composers, poets and "those of a soft and kind nature", he says. "It lifts the spirit and soothes the soul."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He asks whether we have been to the Edge of the World and it's only then that I realise he is the author of the poem we saw inscribed on the stone cairn there, about casting a pebble on the beach. "One day I will be no more, but my pebble will remain here, on the shore of Eternity," it reads.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He asks whether I tossed a pebble into the water and I have to confess that I didn't. "Well, you can always go back," he says, smiling. "There's no end to the edge."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trip notesFLY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Qantas</span>, <span class="companylink">Virgin Australia</span> and Jetstar all have frequent flights from Sydney and Melbourne to Launceston and Hobart. <span class="companylink">Tigerair</span> flies from Melbourne only. Car hire is available at both airports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">STAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coastal Pods Wynyard has two self-contained converted shipping containers by the Inglis River, about two hours' drive north-west of Launceston. Each two-bedroom pod is available from $230 a night. Phone (03) 6442 2351. See coastalpods.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DO</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wynyard Penguin Tours run at night for small groups, from about late September until Easter. Bookings are essential. Tours are free but donations are welcome. Phone 0417 153 244. Email wynyardpenguins@hotmail.com.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmazia boasts eight mazes, the model Village of Lower Crackpot, a gift shop and cafe. The Promised Land tourist attraction is open daily. Phone (03) 6491 1934.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See tasmazia.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MORE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ traveller.com.au/tasmania</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ discovertasmania.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Munro was a guest of Coastal Pods Wynyard.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Goodbye Indonesia, life will never be quite the same again</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2376 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jewel Topsfield reflects on three fascinating years as the Asian powerhouse's Herald correspondent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I can't pinpoint the moment I fell in love with Indonesia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A friend knows exactly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He tells this wonderful anecdote about a security guard at a Jakarta museum asking if he wanted to come inside and lie down to escape the heat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next day he quit his job in Singapore and moved here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is no way you could even sit on the museum steps in Singapore," he told me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I know what he means. Indonesia is everything Singapore is not: dysfunctional, chaotic and polluted. Jakarta, with its gridlocked traffic, is the megalopolis that expats love to hate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And yet I have never felt more alive. The clogged streets with their treacherous footpaths might be hard to navigate but they pulse with energy. I love the wit of Indonesians on social media. I love the steamy nights, waking to the call to prayer and the drama of torrential downpours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anything seems possible here even when so much is bloody difficult. I was recently trapped in floods in Jakarta. The eight-kilometre commute from my office took three hours. As the water lapped against the side of the taxi, the driver got the giggles. It struck me, not for the first time, that no driver in Australia would ever have the sanguinity to laugh about this level of madness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I watched a fleet of green-helmeted Go-Jek motorcycle taxi drivers pick their way through the waves. Go-Jek was Indonesia's first unicorn (a start-up with a value of over $1 billion). It's the ultimate example of a company making lemonade out of lemons. Go-Jeks do not just ferry passengers around the congested streets, squeezing through spaces cars could only dream about, they also save you from ever having to leave the house. I have Go-Jeked (it's a verb here) someone to wax my legs, cut my hair, deliver cranberry juice and drop off a pram I bought online. It arrived exactly 46 minutes later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia is a country of extraordinary stories. The warmth, openness and generosity so many people have shown me has been incredible. My favourite word in Indonesian is 'boleh' (you may). I heard it so many times - you may interview me, you may come in, you may visit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And yet Indonesia is dogged by problems that can seem insurmountable. Barely a day goes past without a corruption scandal hitting the headlines. Last November, 18 officials were suspected of graft relating to the Monument of Integrity erected in Pekanbaru, a city in Sumatra, to mark International Anti-Corruption Day. It was not satire. "Peak Indonesia," someone tweeted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are concerns about rising Islamic conservatism and religious intolerance, with the former Chinese-Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama - known as Ahok - jailed for blasphemy last year and an unprecedented crackdown on the nation's LGBT community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there are also unsung heroes everywhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Sumatran school doing its bit to tackle the national rubbish crisis by allowing parents to pay fees with recycled rubbish, the Muslims who provide security outside churches at Christmas, the women of Rembang who planted their feet in blocks of concrete outside the presidential palace to protest against the environmental damage caused by a cement factory, the Acehnese fishing communities who welcomed Rohingya refugees when the rest of the world turned its back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Struggling to articulate Indonesia's contradictions, I find myself craving my favourite comfort food, martabak manis, a sweet pancake stuffed with chocolate and grated cheddar cheese. It's a much-loved food combination here I once thought disgusting. Now I snap: "How is chocolate and cheese any different to caramel and sea salt?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But unlike my friend's instant crush on Indonesia, my relationship with the country was a complicated slow-burner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My first few months here in early 2015 were harrowing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Within days of my arrival, Indonesia's President, Joko Widodo, rejected the clemency pleas of Bali nine heroin smugglers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reporting on the lead-up to the executions was like watching a film, heart in mouth, that you already know ends tragically. I barely slept for weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Relations between the two countries soured, exacerbated by Tony's Abbott's disastrous reminder of the billion dollars in aid Australia had donated after the 2004 tsunami.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australia and Indonesia are like divorced parents who have to stay together for the sake of the children," one Indonesian official told me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The anger some Australians felt towards Indonesia at the time was visceral. I deplore the death penalty - now more than ever - but felt a responsibility not to fan the flames of hate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Indonesians see drug smuggling through a different prism to Australians; a crime akin to cold-blooded murder or terrorism because it can lead to the deaths of addicts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And there were also Indonesians who were deeply affected; among them the guards and fellow prisoners who became close to Chan and Sukumaran and their indefatigable lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis, who has been fighting to end the death penalty in Indonesia since 1979.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mulya would later describe the night the Australians were shot as the darkest moment of his life. "I failed. I lost," he tweeted, heartbroken, at 4am.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">President Jokowi last year suggested Indonesians would eventually change their minds on execution laws, as citizens of other countries have done in the past.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I hope one day to write a retrospective piece when the death penalty seems as remote and archaic in Indonesia as it does in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I still have to pinch myself I got this job. I was terrified when appointed that I would never live up to the previous Fairfax Indonesia correspondents. I poured out my heart to a mentor. "No two correspondents are the same," she said. "Follow the stories that interest you." It sounds so obvious but it is among the best pieces of career advice I have received.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fairfax is blessed to have two superb Indonesian journalists - Karuni Rompies and Amilia Rosa - who are gutsy, charming, dogged, unflappable and insatiably curious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Accompanied by either one of them, I criss-crossed the archipelago in search of stories that interested me and (I hope) gave readers some insight into the complexity and wonder of one of Australia's closest but least understood neighbours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian media is generally blamed for this lack of understanding. We are told we are only interested in the three Bs: boats, beef and Bali.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is no disputing that Aussies' misadventures in Bali, the seamy underbelly of the Island of Gods and anything that might jeopardise the holiday plans of 1 million Australians a year drives traffic to Fairfax websites.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some of the stories read like Hollywood scripts. The Australian who escaped from Kerobokan jail via a sewage tunnel just weeks before his sentence finished and has taunted police on the run ever since, and the pillar of the Byron Bay community jailed over the fatal assault of a Bali police officer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Bali made up only a part of our reportage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We investigated the devastating legacy of toxic levels of mercury from illegal gold mines on child-bearing women in Lombok.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It can be difficult for foreign media to access Papua (the independence struggle here is one of the most sensitive topics in Indonesia) but we reported on the mysterious disappearance of Papuan Martinus Beanal as conflict simmered around the Freeport mine. The area surrounding the mine, which many indigenous Papuans see as the root of their oppression, has long been the site of a low-level insurgency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We wrote about the "real estate deal of the millennium": the forgotten Indonesian island of Run in the Banda Sea that was swapped for Manhattan 350 years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The man expected to challenge Jokowi for the 2019 presidential election, Prabowo Subianto - usually referred to as a "former military strongman" - told us over breakfast that his love for animals meant he had to negotiate with ants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We explored Indonesia's struggle to come to terms with one of its darkest chapters - the massacre of an estimated 500,000 people suspected of left leanings in 1965 and 1966 - and the surreal paranoia about a resurgent red peril.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I wanted to highlight the inspirational stories too: the former extremist who established a school in Medan to deradicalise the children of terrorists, the footpath warriors reclaiming the pavements for Jakarta's pedestrians and the charismatic crisis manager handling Indonesia's natural disasters one tweet at a time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We interviewed child brides, a rain shaman, street musicians, former political prisoners, participants in the world of competitive birdsong and a much-loved defender of the waria, Indonesia's transgender community of biological men who believe they were born with the souls of women.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Toraja, South Sulawesi, where people are completely at home among the dead, I reflected on our sanitised buttoned-up attitude to death in the West, where the body is quickly dispensed with and grief is largely a lonely, private affair. We had witnessed ma'nene, an intimate ritual to pay homage to ancestors, where corpses were removed from their coffins, groomed and dressed in new outfits. "Were you revolted?" a friend asked. In fact I had been moved. At its heart, the ceremony is an expression of love.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Probolinggo, East Java, one of the centres of black magic in Indonesia, we investigated the killing of a woman suspected of being a sorcerer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We met terrorist attack survivors, women who formed a support group for those who wear the niqab, religious leaders, fans of Indonesia's weird architecture in the 50s and 60s and the president of Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The access we were granted was extraordinary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In June 2015, Amilia and I travelled to West Timor to investigate vague - but potentially explosive - claims an Australian official had paid people smugglers to return a <b>boat</b> of 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was highly sceptical. Then prime minister Tony Abbott had described people smuggling as an "evil trade". Surely Australia would not reward criminal activity?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We were ushered into a room at Kupang police station. I was astonished General Endang Sunjaya, the then police chief of East Nusa Tenggara, had agreed to even meet with us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He told us the six crew members on the people smuggling <b>boat</b> had all sworn under oath they received about $US5000 from an Australian official to return to Indonesia. Their accounts were corroborated by <b>asylum</b> seekers who were separately interrogated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The money is now being kept as evidence that this was not a made-up story," General Endang told us. "This is very unexpected. If it happened in Indonesia it would constitute a bribe."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was pouring with sweat and my eyes were beginning to bulge. I frenziedly scribbled a note to Amilia: "Let's get out of here before he changes his mind and says this is all off the record!!!!!". Amilia calmly ignored me and sipped her tea. "Could you show us the money, sir?" she asked sweetly. "Boleh,' the general replied and showed us photographs of piles of crisp US dollar notes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Later Amilia, bemused by my shock, asked if the Australian government was likely to respond. I said it would almost certainly not comment on "on-water matters".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sure enough, Abbott refused to comment on "operational matters", although he never denied Australia had paid out cash to the people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What we do is we stop the boats by hook or by crook," he said. "I just don't want to go into the details of how it's done."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amusingly, Indonesian journalists were not familiar with the idiom "by hook or by crook" and translated it literally. "Abbott simply insisted that he would 'stop the <b>boat</b> by inducement or with criminals' and refused to elaborate on 'how it is done'," Antara news reported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I'll always be grateful for the refreshing - and generous - level of access that Indonesian officials have provided to us over the past three years. It is a world away from the team of media flacks employed to massage the message back home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We won a Walkley Award for our coverage of the cash-for-<b>boat</b>-turnbacks scandal and it triggered a Senate inquiry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Analysts have claimed Indonesia is at a crossroads for so long it has been parodied by The Simpsons. "Look at me, I'm reading The Economist. Did you know Indonesia is at a crossroads?" Homer asks, after ordering a steak on a plane. "Nooooo," deadpans Marge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But once again, things seem precarious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Identity politics in Indonesia (and other southern Asian countries) has been named one of the top global risks for 2018 by US risk analysis organisation the <span class="companylink">Eurasia Group</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Islamists' increasing sway over Indonesian politics was demonstrated in the lead-up to last year's gubernatorial election, with massive street protests denouncing the reformist Chinese-Christian governor Ahok.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The allegations Ahok had insulted Islam and his subsequent blasphemy trial proved catastrophic for his re-election bid despite polls showing that Jakartans were overwhelmingly satisfied with his performance in office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 2016 and 2017 Islamist mobilisation has been recognised as an important shift in Indonesian politics. All eyes will be on the 171 provincial elections in June, which are likely to be a bellwether of the 2019 presidential elections.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Already there are fears religion, ethnicity and race will be used to sway voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I will be watching with bated breath. After three years reporting on politics I feel personally invested.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I recently met a man who had a map of Indonesia tattooed across his face to reflect his love for his country. He was an environmental activist working in a remote village in Bogor regency to turn plastic rubbish into fuel. This powered a generator and provided electricity for the village.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I thought it would make a great story. The tattooed man who loved his country trying to tackle Indonesia's trash crisis. And then it struck me I had run out of time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And in that moment I realised how much I will miss chronicling this complex, confounding country. Life will never be quite the same again.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>indon : Indonesia | austr : Australia | jakar : Jakarta | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | nswals : New South Wales | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SHD0000020180113ee1e0001o</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020180108ee190000x" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>DFAT's $100K junket for journalists</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Lisa Martin Lisa Martin </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>304 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The foreign affairs department spent close to $100,000 of taxpayers' money on an Australian tour for European journalists that included business class flights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Documents obtained by AAP under freedom of information, show six journalists and a think tank researcher were flown business class from Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Ireland and Sweden, at a cost of close to $54,000 in March last year.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The remaining money was spent on hotel accommodation at the Stamford Plaza in Melbourne, Pullman hotel in Sydney, domestic flights in Australia, bus hire and travel allowances covering food costs. The Office of the Information Commissioner ordered the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to release the documents after a seven-month wait.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The focus of the program was multiculturalism in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The journalists had briefings with the immigration department about Australia's <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> crackdown Operation Sovereign Borders. They also met officials from the social services and foreign affairs. The group spoke with the <span class="companylink">Australian Human Rights Commission</span>, <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Council of Australia</span>, Network Ten The Project host Waleed Aly, Deng Adut a former South Sudanese child soldier turned lawyer, and Australia's 2017 Eurovision entrant, Indigenous artist Isaiah Firebrace.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was also a visit to Wollongong to learn about its history of resettling refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The department says international media visits aim to generate "informed foreign media reporting that contributes to a balanced and positive view of Australia". The visit coincided with some criticism in Europe about the conditions in Australian-run detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea as well as the Mediterranean Sea migrant <b>boat</b> crisis. At the time of the visit, Australia was campaigning for one of two seats on the United Nations human rights council against Spain and France. AAP</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Aussie <b>asylum</b>-seeker film may make waves offshore</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AMY PRICE KRISTY SYMONDS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>264 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ACTOR Joel Jackson believes the <span class="companylink">SBS</span> drama series Safe Harbour, which was filmed and set in Brisbane, will go global.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The four-part drama, which stars Jackson and international Aussie actor Phoebe Tonkin (pictured in a scene above), is a bold psychological thriller about a group of friends on a sailing holiday to Indonesia who cross paths with a fishing <b>boat</b> overloaded with <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s kind of the first Australian comment on the <b>refugee</b> crisis happening around the world,” said Jackson, known for playing Peter Allen in the Channel 7 miniseries Not the Boy Next Door and acting alongside Daniel Radcliffe in Jungle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s going to be a really interesting thing to come out in the new year and I hope that potentially has an international release just because of the widespread message.” The series, part of <span class="companylink">SBS</span>’s television schedule for 2018, was directed by Glendyn Ivin under production company Matchbox Pictures – the same team behind award-winning ABC drama Seven Types of Ambiguity – while NBC Universal is handling international sales.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jackson, who hit the red carpet for Friday’s AACTA International Awards (below), said Brisbane featured heavily in the series.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s unashamedly trying to give away that it was shot in Brisbane. There’s not a lot of shows that are shot there that show the bridge or the landscape of Brisbane and let people know that’s where it’s set,” he said.SBS is yet to announce a release date for the series.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Hopes for thriller to go global</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JACKIE EPSTEIN, NUI TE KOHA </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>142 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ ACTOR Joel Jackson believes <span class="companylink">SBS</span> drama series Safe Harbour will go global. The four-part drama, which stars Jackson and international Aussie actor Phoebe Tonkin, is a bold psychological thriller about a group of friends on a sailing holiday to Indonesia who cross paths with a <b>boat</b> packed with <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s kind of the first Australian comment on the <b>refugee</b> crisis happening around the world,” said Jackson, known for playing Peter Allen in the Channel 7 miniseries and acting alongside Daniel Radcliffe in Jungle.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s going to be a really interesting thing to come out in the new year and I hope that it potentially has an international release just because of the widespread message.”The series is part of <span class="companylink">SBS</span>’s slate of television for 2018.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcele : Celebrities | gcat : Political/General News | glife : Living/Lifestyle</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020180107ee1800068</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020180107ee170003b" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Agenda</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Setting sail for life on the high seas</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2102 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>64</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When we began planning our trip we decided we’d feel more comfortable if Luka, who was then only a baby, was able to follow simple directions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So we agreed on February 2015 as our departure date, when he’d be nearing five, and focused on improving our home for sale.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Toby’s business partner graciously agreed to the idea of him being able to work part-time remotely.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We did courses in survival at sea, first aid, navigation, radio license, international certificate of competency and diesel engine maintenance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We investigated technology for navigation, communication and rescue equipment, as well as the type of <b>boat</b> that would suit our family, from a safety and livability point of view.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We also increased the children’s swimming lessons and researched alternatives for their education.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The final year of preparation was mostly spent downsizing and it was a mammoth task offloading a household set up for five people to fit a space suitable for a 45 foot catamaran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ten months before our departure we hired a catamaran in the Whitsundays as a trial run to see if life on a <b>boat</b> might work for our family.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We included homeschooling as part of our days and the vote during our family meeting on the final evening was unanimous – we can do this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so we bought our catamaran, All Together, a Broadblue 435, in Marmeris, Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both of us weren’t complete novices. Toby, 46, has sailed since he was eight. His passion for it was ignited after his mum and dad taught him to sail in Fiji, where his family lived for a few years and in Australia he enjoyed competitive sailing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’m 46 and still learning to sail. I found the courses taken prior to departure a godsend, and so much has been learnt since, with the hands-on experience of three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our sailing in the Mediterranean has been quite conservative and mostly coastal, so help is never too far away if needed. Our <b>boat</b> can be managed single-handedly, if necessary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has been a massive learning curve but the boys, Liam, Fergus and Luka, are now a valuable part of the sailing crew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Life on board our <b>boat</b> has been mostly wonderful.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A typical day during summer involves waking up in a beautiful bay that is often the subject of postcards. Not only are we visiting this place, we are a part of the picture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The escape hatch, a window adjacent to our bedroom door, showcases schools of fish swimming under our <b>boat</b> in the most beautiful turquoise blue water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Breakfast is eaten while taking in our ever changing surroundings – a new bay, new mountains or a new village.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The environment is nearly always tranquil, no traffic, just mostly what nature has handed us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">School is completed in our togs and, every day at the first opportunity, we jump into our ocean backyard for a swim or play on the paddle board.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sometimes a dinghy ride is taken ashore to discover the local village or we enjoy a walk to a medieval castle overlooking the harbour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The children have blossomed and many aspects of our lives have enriched them in ways we never imagined.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’ve become closer as a family and have all learnt a lot about the world and sailing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The children, and adults, have attained other valuable life lessons – flexibility, resilience, open mindedness and problem solving, to name a few.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The children have learnt, by accident, to speak parts of three languages, to understand currencies and predict the weather.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The running of the home is shared, as the boys are always present when planning and preparing healthy meals, shopping on a budget and managing time. They also assist us with managing water and electricity supply, waste removal and minimisation, <b>boat</b> maintenance and repairs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We can go days without a shower, due to a lack of freshwater or no hot water. Our pantry may run low, as a grocery store may not be readily available, or it is too rough to get off the <b>boat</b> to go shopping, so a bowl of rice may have to do for breakfast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A shopping expedition may take three to four hours in a new town, where we don’t speak the language and, without a car we walk the return journey, carrying our groceries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’ve even resorted to making animal noises when trying to order meats at the deli. Flapping your arms like a turkey and saying “gobble, gobble’’ or oinking like a pig at a busy supermarket counter can be embarrassing but effective.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sometimes we don’t see other children for a couple of weeks, but the children don’t discriminate in age when seeking friendship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">George, a friend Liam made in Greece, taught him how to fillet a fish on the dock while he filled our diesel tanks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other live aboard families also are very keen to connect and it has been wonderful to belong to this tribe of adventurers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our lives are also dictated by the weather and no matter how much we plan, we are at nature’s mercy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This means we may have to skip places we were intending to visit, to find safe harbour elsewhere, or we may be stuck in an isolated bay for days, waiting for conditions to improve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Teaching has its good and bad days and the schedule is constantly adjusted due to sailing conditions or non existent Wi-Fi.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seeing our kids learn to read, then become passionate readers, or even experts in Greek and Roman history, understand fractions or have their timetables down pat under our tutelage is extremely rewarding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As part of their maths program, the boys are responsible for budgeting, shopping and preparing a weekly meal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are thousands of live aboard families at sea who choose various styles of educating, ranging from unschooling to full curriculum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’ve had help from the children’s previous school, friends sharing their resources and the support of the Australian homeschool community and found the best education for our kids has been a mix of following the curriculum using school text books, internet-based programs and freestyle learning, using many of our life experiences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The children’s geography program is simply a world map on our wall, family discussions about where we are navigating to or from and a written report about each country we visit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rest is learnt from observation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">History usually involves an excursion, with a guided tour if we are lucky, followed up by a <span class="companylink">YouTube</span> documentary, if we can get Wi-Fi.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There may be some writing that follows in a journal or creative writing. With maths and science we can measure the children’s progress confidently.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We enlisted a wonderful qualified teacher in Australia who emails us lesson plans, offers feedback through video and email and keeps track of the children progress.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both my parents are teachers who play supporting roles and many retired teachers seem to choose the live aboard life, so they offer us a lot of support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unexpected things can happen on any day. One of our most poignant moments was when we arrived in Symi, Greece, from Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was our first experience of Greece and we were greeted by the sight of the Greek coast guard boats, laden with refugees, coming into port beside us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To have our passports stamped and be issued with a transit log, a requirement upon entry, we were asked to line up at the local police station, with 500 refugees waiting to be processed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While waiting, we struck up conversations with a man from Syria and a man from Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although they had horrific tales to tell and the scars from bullet wounds to show, they were upbeat and polite and were as interested in our journey as we were in theirs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next day we met a Syrian mother and daughter who’d left the father and three other siblings, in transit to Germany, with the hope of creating a better life for their family. They came aboard our catamaran and shared with us beautiful photos of Syria before the recent crisis. It was very grounding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’ve kept in contact with this mother and daughter and are pleased to report they did make it to Germany and only just recently, two years later, have been reunited with the rest of their family and given <b>asylum</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All five of us are with each other 24/7, so that is challenging. However, it’s what we signed up for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Toby finds it quite stressful being the captain and making sure everything is in good working order. There is a lot to maintain.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a huge learning curve for all of us and we’re always putting ourselves outside of our comfort zones.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Being a <b>boat</b> mum, with four males on board, it’s difficult to channel my feminine side in our small cocoon of a home. I am nearly always barefoot, possibly haven’t washed my hair for a couple of weeks and do not own an iron.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are many conversations about blocked loos and we’re often seen walking around town with a bag of garbage that we are trying to offload.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Often to get from A to B, we can endure sailing legs that are well over 20 hours long, which includes being at the helm overnight. These can be quite boring, exhausting and sometimes rough, causing seasickness and fragile items to go flying. Or they can be both relaxing and exhilarating, especially when you witness several shooting stars or there’s a full moon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most stressful part is when something goes wrong with the <b>boat</b> at sea and we have to resolve it or manage without it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Propellers have fallen off or become tangled and lines have snapped. Thankfully help is never too far away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We’ve learnt from other sailors that this is a normal part of sailing, but none of us like it. We miss family and friends a lot and sometimes feel isolated in the big blue ocean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Special occasions like birthdays and Australian celebrations, are particularly hard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Seasickness is hard and I don’t like it when parts of the <b>boat</b> stops working when we are at sea,’’ Liam says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fergus doesn’t like missing his family and friends and Luka says he doesn’t like seasickness and jellyfish.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I ask the kids what they think of boating life, Liam says: “It’s awesome. I love it that the ocean is our backyard and we see dolphins, whales and turtles.’’ Fergus says: “We get to see dolphins and everything we don’t get to see in our normal house.’’ Luka loves that he can swim every day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My highlight would be spending hours swimming with turtles in a bay off Kas, Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One turtle befriended me and let me touch its back. We swam together like two mates in the ocean. When I had to turn back he stopped and turned as if to wave goodbye. It was incredible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Toby’s highlight would be the first day he took the <b>boat</b> out of the marina. It had long been his dream to sail across the Pacific and to be able to do it with the people he holds dear. It was at the same time exhilarating and frightening.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first time we turned our bow towards the open water of the Mediterranean Sea was the beginning of a chapter in life that he had dreamt of and worked towards since childhood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our one-year idea will become at least a four-year journey, possibly more. In 2½ years we have sailed about 4000 nautical miles and visited Turkey, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Italy and France.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Being able to disconnect from busy life and reconnect with nature has been a highlight. Admiring the wonder of what mankind has built, as well as what he has endured just to survive over the centuries, is eye watering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having beautiful interactions with fellow sailors, travellers and generous locals and being the receiver of kindness is a gift you cannot put a price on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many people we have met are less fortunate than us and it has reinforced in our minds how lucky we are to have had the fortune to be born in Australia and to live in Queensland.Next Sunday in Agenda Kay Dibben describes the lives of three other Queensland families who have turned their backs on suburbia for the freedom of life aboard their boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020180107ee170003b</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020180105ee1600013" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Policy probe at <b>refugee</b> inquest</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tim Clarke Legal Affairs Editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>456 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A date has finally been set for an inquest into the death of an Iranian <b>asylum</b> seeker on Christmas Island in 2015 that sparked detention-centre riots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The inquest could also result in a potentially embarrassing public inquiry into Australia’s treatment of refugees.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iranian-Kurd Fazel Chegeni Nejad arrived by <b>boat</b> in Australia in 2011, escaping torture in his homeland, and had been granted <b>refugee</b> status.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But a brief cafeteria brawl at the Curtin Immigration Detention centre, which led to an assault conviction, condemned him from being able to settle in an Australian community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A subsequent escape attempt from the Christmas Island centre in 2015 led to him dying at the base of a cliff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His death was the catalyst for nearly 48 hours of rioting at the high-security facility, with part of the centre set on fire and claims some detainees were wielding weapons including cricket bats and a chainsaw.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than two years on, two weeks has been set aside for the inquest before a Perth coroner later this year — with the length of court time allocated suggesting <b>asylum</b> advocate calls for a “broad and deep” inquest into conditions on Christmas Island at the time have been heeded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, <b>refugee</b> advocates welcomed the confirmation of the July and August inquest, saying they hoped it would shine a light on conditions at the Christmas Island centre, and the experience of <b>asylum</b> seekers in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A legitimate question for the coroner is whether national detention policies and practices, and the minister at the time ... contributed to the death of Mr Chegeni,” Associate Professor Harry Minas, director of the Melbourne <b>Refugee</b> Studies Program at the <span class="companylink">University of Melbourne</span>, said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I can’t see how the answer to this question could possibly be no.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In my view the coroner must comment on whether the Government and, in particular (Peter) Dutton, adequately discharged their legal duty to protect.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The inquest will likely explore the long history of the 33-year-old’s continuing immigration detention based on his failure to pass the character test, which centred around the jail term imposed for the assault which was later criticised by the WA Supreme Court.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was sentenced to six months jail by former magistrate Barbara Lane. An appeal later found that sentence “manifestly excessive” but did not quash the conviction which meant no prospect of release.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most recent figures from the Australian Border Force reveal there are still 313 people in immigration detention on Christmas Island, 80 of those who were so-called illegal maritime arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘The coroner must comment on whether the Government ... adequately discharged their legal duty to protect.’ <b>Refugee</b> advocate Professor Harry Minas</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Settle in for best on the box in 2018</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>WENLEI MA </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>564 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IF YOU already think there’s too much stuff on TV, brace yourself because it’s not going to let up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There will be no shortage of must-see TV in 2018 with returning favourites and a bevy of new offerings to keep your eyes glued to the screen, Clockwork Orange-style.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here are 10 TV shows you’ll be talking about.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ROMPER STOMPER (Stan): Twenty-five years after the explosive and controversial Russell Crowe skinhead movie, the brains behind Romper Stomper is bringing it back for a six-part miniseries, which dropped New Year’s Day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HANDMAID’S TALE SEASON 2 (<span class="companylink">SBS</span>): The Handmaid’s Tale, the standout hit of 2017, will be back for another round in April. That means more of Elisabeth Moss’ chilling performance and more of the intensity of living under a misogynistic theocratic regime. The first season ended on a cliffhanger and the next instalment will deviate from Margaret Atwood’s original.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: The team behind American Crime Story did such a stellar job with the O.J. Simpson trial, there is no doubt that expectations are high for the next instalment. The sensational events surrounding Gianni Versace’s murder out the front of his Florida mansion will be dramatised with Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez, Ricky Martin and Darren Criss in key roles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (Foxtel): Remaking Peter Weir’s ethereal Picnic At Hanging Rock is an ambitious move, as is stretching out Joan Lindsay’s 200-page novella into a six-part miniseries. But from what we’ve seen so far of the Foxtel series, starring Game Of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer, it promises to be a gripping gothic thriller.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SAFE HARBOUR (<span class="companylink">SBS</span>): Aussie TV doesn’t get more exciting than Safe Harbour, a Brisbane-set thriller from <span class="companylink">SBS</span>. Starring Ewen Leslie, Phoebe Tonkin and Jacqueline McKenzie, the show deals with the ripple effect of the night when their sailing <b>boat</b> comes across an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JESSICA JONES SEASON 2 (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>): Two-and-a-half years after the surly, hard-drinking superhero detective hit our screens, we’re finally getting a second instalment. The <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> Marvel series has already said to expect a more emotionally hard-hitting arc.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WESTWORLD SEASON 2 (Foxtel): <span class="companylink">HBO</span>’s western sci-fi was a massive hit in 2016, driven by a multilayered puzzle that had water coolers bubbling. Now that the truth of the timelines has been revealed and the robots have started their rebellion, expect some violent delights to meet their violent ends.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DOCTOR WHO (ABC): There’s no underplaying the significance of the first female Doctor with Jodie Whittaker taking up the famous time-traveller mantle in the new series. It should breathe new life into the 54-year-old franchise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALTERED CARBON (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>): Imagine living forever by downloading your brain into new bodies. That’s the premise of an ambitious new sci-fi series which also has a murder mystery as its central hook. The stylish <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> series stars Joel Kinnaman, Dichen Lachman and James Purefoy.PINE GAP (ABC): The secret American/Australian defence facility at Pine Gap has always been a mystery to many Australians — guess that’s why they call it a secret. The ABC’s six-episode political thriller will be set around the base.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gent : Arts/Entertainment | gtvrad : Television/Radio | gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document NORTHT0020180102ee1300032</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020180102ee130005q" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The TV shows you’ll binge watch next</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1122 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you already think there’s too much on TV, brace yourself because it’s not going to let up. Returning favourites and a bevy of new offerings will keep your eyes glued to the screen in 2018.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ROMPER STOMPER (Stan) Twenty-five years after the explosive Russell Crowe skinhead movie, the brains behind Romper Stomper have brought it back for a six-part miniseries, which started on New Year’s Day. With all the turmoil of the past few years, expect it to have a scary relevance to race relations in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HANDMAID’S TALE SEASON 2 (<span class="companylink">SBS</span>) The Handmaid’s Tale, the standout hit of 2017, will be back for another round in April. That means more of Elisabeth Moss’s chilling performance of living under a misogynistic theocratic regime. The first season ended on a cliffhanger and the next will deviate from Margaret Atwood’s original novel, so everything will be a surprise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PICNIC AT HANGINGROCK (Foxtel) Remaking Peter Weir’s ­ethereal Picnic at Hanging Rock is ambitious, as is stretching Joan Lindsay’s 200-page novella into a six-part mini­series. But from what we’ve seen so far of the Foxtel series, starring Game of Thrones’ ­Natalie Dormer, it promises to be a gripping gothic thriller.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE ALIENIST (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>) A lush period drama set at the end of the 19th century, The Alienist follows a criminal psychologist as he conducts an investigation into a series of boy prostitute deaths. The show stars Luke Evans, Daniel Bruhl and Dakota ­Fanning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">VEEP SEASON 7 (Foxtel) When the actual White House is looking more and more like a parody, it can be hard for a political satire to compete. Alas, Selina Meyer and her gang of incompetent but hilarious staffers will be bowing out for a final season – but probably not before inventively dropping the C-bomb three dozen times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE AMERICANS SEASON 6 (Foxtel) The final season of this incredible historical spy thriller should finish its superb run with more of what we’ve come to expect – excellent writing and nuanced acting from Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SAFE HARBOUR (<span class="companylink">SBS</span>) Aussie TV doesn’t get more exciting than Safe Harbour, a Brisbane-set thriller from <span class="companylink">SBS</span>. Starring Ewen Leslie, Phoebe Tonkin and Jacqueline McKenzie, the show deals with the years-long ripple effect of the night their yacht comes across an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McMAFIA (<span class="companylink">Amazon</span>) David Strathairn leads a cast including James Norton and Juliet Rylance in McMafia, a crime drama about Alex, an English-raised son of Russian exiles with mafia links. All Alex wants is to build a legitimate business, but his family’s shady past won’t fade away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BACHELOR IN PARADISE (Ten) There’s no doubt a lot of Australians are really into the melodrama, staged or otherwise, of dating shows. And if you like that sort of thing, then what better way to indulge in the guiltiest of pleasures than with Bachelor In Paradise, essentially an all-star collection of contestants past, thrown together with a lot of booze and capacity for bad life decisions?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SPARTAN (Seven) Channel 7’s answer to the juggernaut that was Australian Ninja Warrior, Spartan is a similar concept in almost every way except for one thing: contestants are in teams.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JESSICA JONES SEASON 2 (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>) Two-and-a-half years after the surly, hard-drinking superhero detective hit our screens, we’re finally getting a second instalment. Expect a more emotionally hard-hitting arc in the <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> Marvel series.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WESTWORLD SEASON 2 (Foxtel) <span class="companylink">HBO</span>’s western sci-fi was a huge hit in 2016, driven by a multilayered puzzle that had water-cooler chat bubbling. Now the truth of the timelines has been revealed and the robots have started their rebellion, expect some violent delights to meet violent ends.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DOCTOR WHO (ABC) There’s no underplaying the significance of the first ­female Doctor, with Jodie Whittaker, below, taking up the famous time-traveller mantle in the new ­series. It should breathe new life into a franchise that started in 1963.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">UNREAL SEASON 3 (Stan) Despite a propulsive and addictive first season, UnReal came unstuck in its sophomore year after the departure of its co-creator Marti Noxon. After an 18-month break, a new showrunner has arrived for season three with action to take place on a behind-the-scenes Bachelorette-type series.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALTERED CARBON (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>) Imagine living forever by downloading your brain into new bodies. That’s the premise of an ambitious new sci-fi ­series, which also has a murder mystery as its central hook. The stylish <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> series stars Joel Kinnaman, Dichen Lachman and James Purefoy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LUTHER SEASON 5 (Foxtel) The tortured, morally compromised detective is finally coming back for a fifth season, a miracle given star Idris Elba’s incredible busy schedule. Production for the four episodes is expected to start in early 2018.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">COLLATERAL (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>) Led by a stellar cast including Carey Mulligan and Billie Piper, Collateral is a four-part miniseries set over four days in London after the shooting death of a pizza delivery man. Mulligan plays a detective who’s convinced the death is more than it seems.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SHARP OBJECTS (Foxtel) Adapted from a Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) novel, the series will star Amy Adams as a crime reporter recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital who returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two girls. The series was developed by Marti Noxon (Buffy, UnReal).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ATLANTA SEASON 2 (<span class="companylink">SBS</span>) Atlanta was one of the most exciting TV shows of 2016 and creator, director, writer and star Donald Glover’s busy schedule delayed production on season two until 2018. The clever series about an aspiring music manager earnt high critical praise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MANIAC (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>) With an all-star cast including Jonah Hill, Emma Stone, Sally Field and Justin Theroux, Maniac revolves around the fantasy lives of patients in a mental institution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MYSTERY ROAD (ABC) A spin-off from films Mystery Road and Goldstone, the Australian series stars Aaron Pedersen as an indigenous ­detective in the Outback. The six-parter, which also features Judy Davis, hinges on the ­disappearances of two farm workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TALKIN’ ABOUT YOUR GENERATION (Nine) There’s a decent chance Channel 9 will stuff up what was a mildly diverting show on Channel 10, but Shaun Micallef is always good for a laugh. The quiz show has scrapped the Baby Boomers team and replaced them with Gen Z.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PINE GAP (ABC)The secret American/Australian defence facility at Pine Gap is a mystery to many Australians. The ABC’s six-episode political thriller will be set around the base and its role in the global intelligence game.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gmovie : Movies | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020180102ee130005q</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020180101ee120000l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Support for calling a halt to repeat <b>refugee</b> applications</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Damien Murphy Damien Murphy </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>365 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2018 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Nick Bolkus, gained cabinet support for stopping repeat applications for <b>refugee</b> status to stop the removal of non-citizens and circumvent immigration requirements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He told cabinet in December 1994 that the previous year, 1631 people had application for <b>refugee</b> status granted while 11,121 were rejected and the ill-founded applications were clogging up the system, preventing genuine refugees being dealt with expeditiously.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Bolkus, in a censored report, said 34 per cent of <b>boat</b> arrivals lodged repeat applications.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cabinet agreed to amend the Migration Act 1959 to place a complete bar on repeat applications for protection visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Bolkus noted such legislation would be criticised by <b>refugee</b> interest groups for putting Australia in breach of international obligations with regard to refoulement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But good international citizenship had many dimensions: the government increased its humanitarian aid to United Nations operations in Rwanda in July 1994 by an additional $6.5 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ministers were advised that the medical assistance provided with those funds would focus on supporting other <span class="companylink">UN</span> contingents rather than on <b>refugee</b> centres: there might be questions on this focus, given that "atrocities of recent weeks" had only made the plight of refugees more urgent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In agreeing to provide peacekeeping support to monitor a ceasefire in Bougainville, ministers also agreed that public presentations should make clear that Australia assumed no responsibility for the outcome of negotiations which were judged to have a limited likelihood of success given continuing turmoil in Papua New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conversely, while the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces were judged to suffer from a range of weaknesses - from poor training to endemic corruption - Australia should at least provide defence assistance to a government emerging from "decades of horrendous violence".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia was judged a much more robust partner, but ministers were still advised the Security Agreement that Prime Minister Paul Keating and Foreign Minister Gareth Evans secured with the Suharto government in late 1995 was likely to have some "sensitivity" among Australians still outraged by Indonesian policy in East Timor, or those who still considered that country a threat to Australia's security.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PRIMROSE RIORDAN </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>389 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2018 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CABINET PAPERS 1994-1995 REFUGEES</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Keating’s government rejected a major expansion of <b>refugee</b> places in Australia’s humanitarian program after advice from officials that it would cost millions of ­dollars.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time the government was considering a legal change to prevent <b>asylum</b>-seekers already in detention from suing for up to $20 million in compensation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then immigration minister Nick Bolkus proposed to extend the humanitarian program’s 13,000 places to add an extra 2000 as part of a “contingency reserve”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Bolkus’s proposal would have allowed hundreds of refugees already in Australia to stay but the senior leadership opted on May 9, 1994, to extend the program by just 750. The year before, the Labor government had expanded the ­humanitarian program by 1000 places to 13,000 but Senator Bolkus ­argued the program should go ­further to “accommodate onshore refugees and emergency situations”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said there was a need for the program to remain flexible, ­especially considering a fragile international situation such as in the former Yugoslavia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The minister argued that while being granted permanent residence rather than a temporary protection permit would theoretically allow the migrant access to more government services, the contingency reserve would have “no net budgetary effect”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This appears to have been dismissed by the Finance Department in its submission, which costed the program at $15m in its first year. “Finance strongly ­opposes the creation of any contingency reserve, as it invites pressure (which could be difficult to resist) to use the reserve, whether it is needed or not, particularly ­towards the end of the program year,” the department said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In view of the high cost to the budget (approximately $7.5m per thousand people in their first year) of any increase in the offshore component of the program, it would be appropriate to put to cabinet any proposal to increase the size of the program after the ­initial target is set.”The papers reveal cabinet concerns in 1994 about whether the government’s detention of <b>boat</b> arrivals was constitutional and could see the government forced to pay up to $20m in compensation to <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Senator Bolkus suggested amending a section of the Migration Act “to avert possible compensation payments for unlawful detention estimated at possibly $10m-$20m”.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The real Manus story</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MIRANDA DEVINE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1001 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2017 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Forget the horror stories retailed by activists to make Manus Island out as some sort of gulag. A former guard has written a tell-all that reveals a more complex reality</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> activists, Greens and assorted compassion­istas have spent the past four years branding the Manus Island offshore processing centre as a “gulag”, a concentration camp, and a shameful stain on Australia’s moral character.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But no sooner was the centre closed two months ago, and the roughly 800 remaining male <b>asylum</b> seekers offered new accommodation by the Australian government, than the activists changed tack.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now there is nothing more ­inhumane than closing the so-called “gulag”. Go figure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Compassionistas help no one by failing to make the distinction ­between genuine refugees fleeing persecution, and the Iranian party boys, draft dodgers, paedophiles and chancers looking to get a free ride in a country whose culture they despise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The story of Manus Island has thus far been told only by the activists. But a new book to be published next month, “Manus Days — The Untold Story of Manus Island”, tells the story from the point of view of an Australian without an axe to grind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael Coates (a pseudonym) had no view on the Australian ­government’s policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was an ex-soldier who ­answered an ad for “interesting work” in the South Pacific.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like other young Australians, he was on Manus to do a job, working from February 2014 to October 2016 as a “Safety & Security Adviser” at the Manus Island Regional ­Processing Centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He arrived just after the much publicised 2014 riots, in which Iranian <b>asylum</b> seeker Reza Berati was killed, and he left a year before the centre was closed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His keen observations of daily life on Manus and his insights into the characters of diverse groups of <b>asylum</b> seekers paints a far more ­nuanced picture than either side of the <b>refugee</b> debate has provided thus far. It is not the picture of persecuted innocents, as painted by <b>refugee</b> ­activists, but nor is it a picture entirely of con-artists scamming our immigration laws. The truth lies somewhere in between.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He gives a brutally frank assessment of the middle-class Iranian “party boys” who were “fleeing from prosecution, not persecution”, and who led riots and stood over other groups on the island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They had a more respectful but still strained relationship with the centre’s Arab community, which was mainly made up of Iraqi and Lebanese.  The only group they didn’t seem to want to antagonise was the Africans.” The Iranians told him how they had spent months in Thailand before buying passage to Australia with ­people smugglers, “drinking and womanising and (indulging in) vices that had not been so easily available back in Iran. That is the freedom they want.” Coates writes with compassion about the Tamil, Rohingya and Hazara <b>asylum</b> seekers, whose <b>asylum</b> claims were credible, and who were “a pleasure to be around. They were ­respectful and co-operative — none of the yelling and abuse that came from their Iranian neighbours”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coates writes of the Iranian pickpocket “Captain Jack”, named ­because of his resemblance to Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He would later go on to tell me of his illustrious career as a heroin ­addict, proudly displaying the track marks along his arms and between his fingers and toes. He also spoke of the sugar daddy he had lived with in Thailand before boarding the <b>boat</b> to Australia, who supplied him with a never-ending stream of drugs in ­exchange for sex.” Coates also describes how <b>asylum</b> seekers would trade money, cigarettes and mobile phones for sex and drugs with locals. One of his most “unsavoury” jobs involved an <b>asylum</b> seeker “suspected to be a paedophile due to the discovery of child pornography in his room. (We) had the unenviable task of ensuring he did not come into any contact with local children while at the same time keep enough distance so that we could not be accused of harassing or restricting his movement in any way.” He describes how the peaceful Manus locals grew increasingly hostile towards badly behaved <b>asylum</b> seekers, mainly Iranians, who they were paid to wait on hand and foot, but who returned the favour with ­racist insults.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They are rude! They call us animals, they mock our country”, the ­locals told Coates. “They yell ‘F--k Australia! F--k PNG!’ “They flash their cocks to the women walking by on the road! They yelled at us that they would kill us and rape our wives.” Coates could hardly blame the ­locals for feeling hostility towards the worst-behaved <b>asylum</b> seekers, who he watched fake injuries and mental illness, foment unrest, treat local staff with racist contempt, and bully the weak among them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He grew suspicious of his fellow Australian workers, the case managers and social workers who he came to believe were “actively encouraging unrest among the transferees” in ­cahoots with <b>refugee</b> activists back in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the end, he was disillusioned about “the violence, the sexual ­assaults, the treatment of the locals — but also the manipulation of well-meaning but naïve people back in Australia who seemed so desperate to believe what they were being told.” A year later, <b>refugee</b> activists are still fomenting unrest on Manus in the vain hope of weakening our government’s resolve not to settle people who have arrived illegally by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Have they not learned from their mistake pressuring the egotistical Kevin Rudd to dismantle our hard-won border protections? Have they forgotten how the boats started flooding back, bringing 50,000 “illegal maritime arrivals” over the next six years and the tragedy of 1200 <b>asylum</b> seekers drowned at sea? Have they not seen how securing our borders has made it possible to help more real refugees, especially Christians?By blaggarding Australia’s good name, they make it harder to resolve the Manus problem, and they erode public support for genuine refugees.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Craig Hoyle </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1499 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The man Australian investigators believe is partly to blame for one of the worst-ever people-smuggling tragedies says he has nothing to hide. Craig Hoyle reports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maythem Radhi's wife whispers a prayer, hands pressed together beneath her face in supplication. Her dark eyes retreat even further into shadow beneath a soft black cap.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She strokes the back of her husband's neck; he runs his hand through his curly black hair before leaning one arm on the boardroom table of an Auckland law office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They shiver. The air-conditioning is running strong, but perhaps it's apprehension. Radhi and his wife know they may have only 48 hours before he's ordered to surrender for extradition and taken to the airport. "Today my life will change," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Radhi is accused of trying to smuggle <b>asylum</b> seekers on a <b>boat</b> that sank south of Indonesia, resulting in the death of 146 children, 142 women and 65 men. <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> allege he was part of a smuggling group, along with Abu Quassey and Khaleed Daoed, who sent hundreds to their death on the SIEV-X in 2001.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Radhi adamantly denies culpability and since 2009 has fought extradition all the way to the New Zealand Supreme Court, pleading that his family not be "torn apart".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As we sit in his lawyer's office, that court is about to deliver a ruling on whether Radhi's case can be referred to New Zealand's Minister of Justice. Shortly after 10am, barrister Ron Mansfield strides into the room, beaming as he exclaims: "We won!"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There's an unintelligible cry from Radhi. He jumps to his feet and throws his arms around Mansfield, who returns the bear hug. Radhi grins from ear to ear when asked a few minutes later how he feels. "I feel so much better," he says. "My heart nearly stopped!"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Facing extradition</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Radhi's battle is far from over - he could yet be extradited to Australia to face criminal trial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In its decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court acknowledged Radhi risked being caught in "immigration limbo" if he were extradited. He's not a New Zealand citizen, meaning Immigration NZ could deny him re-entry regardless of whether a jury finds him guilty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Treaties mean Radhi could not be returned to his native Iraq, where he would likely face persecution, meaning he runs the risk of indefinite detention similar to that suffered by detainees on Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Supreme Court ruled his case should be referred to New Zealand Justice Minister Andrew Little.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One potential work-around would be for immigration minister Iain Lees-Galloway to grant a special visa to Radhi, guaranteeing his return to New Zealand - and to his wife and three children - regardless of any trial outcome in Australia. It's the latest twist in a decades-long saga.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Near-death escape</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maythem Radhi's wife was bleeding out. She had been shot through the chest. "She was dying in my hands, and there was blood everywhere," he says, during an interview at the family's Auckland home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bullet was supposed to hit her husband. Masked men had burst into their family home in Baghdad late one winter night in 1996, demanding extortion payments. "They ask for money," Radhi says, "and because we didn't pay, they start shooting."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The attackers fled into the night. They were never found.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Radhi cradled his wife as his brother rushed them to hospital. Surgeons discovered the bullet had missed her heart, and worked through the night to save her life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By the time Radhi's wife gave birth to their first child the following year, she'd made a full recovery. But the couple knew they had to leave. They were Sabean, a minority religious group, and there was no place for them in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If we stayed it was going to get worse and worse," says Radhi. "We wanted to find a place where we were free to live like normal people."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Smuggling accusations</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Radhi left almost everything behind when he fled Iraq in 2000. Together with his brother, wife, and young daughter, he escaped first to Jordan, then onward to Malaysia and Indonesia. They were among hundreds, perhaps thousands, of refugees heading toward Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees pooled their resources and pitched in to help each other.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian police allege Radhi became involved during this time with Abu Quassey, an infamous people smuggler. They say Radhi worked as his right-hand man, gathering fares for the doomed SIEV-X voyage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Radhi tells a different story. "It's all the people helping, it's not only me," he says. "They ask, 'Which smuggler is good?' Just because we are talking does not mean we are smugglers."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Radhi and his family planned to leave Indonesia on that fateful voyage, which set off in the early hours of October 18, 2001. At the last minute they heard they might be considered for <b>asylum</b> in Britain - a brother lived there - so they did not board.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"And then we heard the ship had sunk."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The SIEV-X sinking</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Parents watched in horror as their sons and daughters screamed and thrashed in the oily shark-infested waters. Their cries gradually faded away as they grew weak and drowned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just 45 people survived when their vessel, old, leaky, and hopelessly overcrowded, capsized that afternoon. Most of the 353 who perished were women and children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One woman gave birth as the disaster unfolded. Later, her body was seen floating in the ocean near that of her newborn, joined together in death by an uncut umbilical cord.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> later came to be known as SIEV-X, a clinical designation of Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel, yet to be assigned a tracking number.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maythem Radhi knew many of the victims. "My friend was there and died, and really we cried," he says. "My wife kept dreaming about him every day for two years."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Survivors pointed to Radhi as one of those responsible for the disaster. He was arrested by Indonesian police. "I have nothing to hide from," he says. "I didn't do anything wrong, so I went with them."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then in his mid-20s, he spent four months behind bars in Jakarta in early 2002 before being released due to "insufficient evidence".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Quest for justice</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian police fought long and hard in their quest for justice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SIEV-X mastermind Abu Quassey was arrested in Indonesia and repatriated to his home country of Egypt, where he was sentenced to five years and three months in prison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fellow smuggler Khaleed Daoed was found in Sweden in 2003 and extradited to Australia for prosecution, where he received a prison sentence of nine years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However the AFP failed in its attempts to haul Radhi before the courts. A warrant was kept out for his arrest, but the investigation was suspended in 2003 when it became clear it would not be possible to extradite him from Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During the following years, Radhi appealed to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (<span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>) to help build a new life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> report found the former goldsmith was a <b>refugee</b> "in continuing need of international protection", and in 2008 it recommended him as a suitable candidate for resettlement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2009, the Radhi family was accepted into New Zealand as part of the annual <b>refugee</b> quota. Australian authorities were astounded to learn of Maythem Radhi's arrival in New Zealand, and have been fighting to extradite him ever since.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A new life</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Radhi has come to see New Zealand as his home. It's a "beautiful country", he says, "and the people here are really nice. Nobody asks you about what is your religion, and what is your race." He wants to become a citizen, and says he can't wait to be rid of the cloud that's hung over his head. "My children are first. We just want to try to give them a nice life," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And his mum. He hasn't seen her since he fled Iraq, and she's now living in Europe with his sister. He can't risk leaving New Zealand to visit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"She can't travel here, and she's very sick," Radhi says. "I wish I can meet her again one day."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He'd never go back to Iraq. Since he and his wife left, their family has suffered an agonising trail of bloodshed. In 2003, his uncle was shot and killed while driving along the street. Two years later, his father was shot dead when he tried to save another son from being kidnapped. An uncle was tortured to death in 2014, and a cousin and brother-in-law were kidnapped and killed the same year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iraq is no longer their home. New Zealand is their home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The place that protects you is your home," says Radhi. "If a place does not protect you, it is not your home."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Resistance by prisoners on Manus Island this year inspired a manifesto for...</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Arnold Zable </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2221 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Resistance by prisoners on Manus Island this year inspired a manifesto for displaced people around the world and here its author, <b>refugee</b> Behrouz Boochani, shares his insights with writer Arnold Zable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have known Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani since 2014. He fled Iran in fear for his safety as an advocate for Kurdish rights and culture. He has been detained on Manus Island since August 2013. Over the years we have often discussed his predicament, and how it has changed the way he views the world. Behrouz combines political insight with philosophical reflection, but at heart he is an artist: a writer and poet with an eye for both the brutal and the beautiful.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As 2018 approaches, the men, women and children on Nauru and Manus Island are enduring their fifth year of incarceration. Globally, there are an estimated 65 million displaced people, many of whom are stateless. Behrouz Boochani's case is both unique and emblematic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Part of this dialogue took place in June and was first published in the NGV Triennial by the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span>. It is presented here in edited form and followed by a conversation that took place this week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Arnold Zable: Behrouz, you were forced to flee your country in search of freedom. How does it feel to approach and move across unknown borders?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Behrouz Boochani: First I would say that I was born on a border and this concept of a border is part of my identity. Kurdistan was divided between four countries after the First World War, and most of the Kurdish population are living across borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I was in the plane over the Iranian sky, I was thinking I was leaving a country where I did not belong. I did not think I was leaving my homeland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At that time I thought I was crossing a border between two civilisations - Eastern civilisation and Western civilisation. For me that meant I was going to embrace freedom ... I thought that Western culture was for anybody who could understand it, and that it was for all humans, not only for Western people ... When I arrived in Australia they exiled me to Manus Island, and I discovered that my understanding about Western culture was superficial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have experienced a lot of borders here that I did not expect. Borders between human beings ... and even a kind of illusory political border that exists on a map, but is ignored by political power - where a government like the Australian one can make decisions for countries like Papua New Guinea and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I expected to find what I thought were Western ideals of freedom, but instead found myself in a land where I don't have any rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zable: You remain in exile, but since the PNG Supreme Court decision declaring the centre illegal, you've moved about the island a bit more freely. How have you experienced the movement between you and the indigenous people? Have you broken through this border?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani: I was thinking about Manusian culture for a long time ... After the PNG Supreme Court decision, I was able to access their community, and I have learnt a lot about their culture, music, religion. Another interesting thing for me was to discover elements of colonialism in their culture, and how colonialism has had an impact on their culture for a long time . . . The Manusians are similar in some ways to Kurdish people, for example, in the way colonialism has had an impact on them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zable: You say that four years after leaving Iran you feel yourself to be a stateless person, and you belong to no country. Where do you belong now? How do you sense the world around you?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani: I always imagine the world map. I always imagine a tiny island and a prison in the tiny island. It's where I am at this moment. Three years ago, when the local people attacked our prison and killed a person and injured 100 people, the guards took us to a soccer ground outside the prison. That was the first time we had been out. They gathered 900 men on the soccer ground for a night. On that dark night I was looking at the sky, and I felt that there was no place in the world for me - they even took away my prison. I felt that I don't even belong to the Earth and I was looking at the sky and imagining another planet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three years since that night I'm still imagining the world map, I'm still imagining a tiny island and a prison in that tiny island. But I'm still alive and I have changed my mind and I feel deeply that I belong to the Earth. I belong to nature and I believe in solid ground. I think we are human and don't have any shelter but humanity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have had people from around the world and Australia sending messages to me, sharing their kindness with me, and I think that I belong to this world and I belong to the humans beyond the political borders ... I am a free man.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zable: This is a profound paradox, Behrouz. Out of your suffering has emerged a humanistic vision, and a way of being in the world, that has taken root despite your statelessness and the restrictions on your movements. How much of this comes from being a writer, a thinker, an observer, and a person who is constantly bearing witness?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani: It is a paradoxical vision and a paradoxical situation. I agree. But I do not think it's important where you are in order to feel freedom and humanity, because feeling freedom and humanity relies on your inner world. ... Of course, writing helps me to write down the suffering, and to extract beauty through it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another point is that I struggle in writing, and I feel alive while I'm struggling ... I have learnt in this prison that I have to make the harsh situation, and the suffering, softer through poetry. At the same time, I have to be strong to survive ... It looks like a paradox that you can be soft and strong, but this is how I understand the meaning of life ... This prison has helped me discover the femininity in my soul. I feel that part of me is a man and part of me is a woman ... I don't say that this is an absolutely correct understanding, but it has helped me to survive in this prison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zable: In recent times, there has been a major shift in the situation on Manus Island. The men have taken a brave stand for their freedom, with a vigil that began months ago and culminated in a three-week resistance inside the detention centre. You were a central figure in that resistance, and you have published a manifesto about the experience. How has the resistance influenced your thinking about freedom and statelessness?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani: Actually, we have been resisting for years, and I have learnt from my experiences that resisting means fighting against tyranny. I believe that our democratic way and peaceful resistance deeply affected the refugees who created it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even people in Australia and PNG ... were deeply affected. It affected a part of Australian society. We felt that many people were resisting with us. I think my understanding of freedom and peace changed because I deeply understand now that these concepts have power. I found that resisting and living in peace, and on a foundation of love, has the power to create change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zable: Perhaps it can be said that you created a republic of refugees, or a republic of the stateless, governed by a disciplined, peaceful act of civil disobedience. How would you describe this republic? And now that the literal fences of the centre have been torn down, do its outlines still exist?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani:I think a republic is a political concept but yes, in some ways our resistance was a declaration of a republic and a political act. But in our hearts, we only wanted to declare that we exist. And our language was our half-naked bodies and our peaceful resistance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We did not set out to play a political role, but we did create challenges and we did attain some power. During that time, the Australian prime minister and the PNG prime minister threatened us directly, and said that they wanted to arrest the refugees' leaders. This shows how effective our resistance became.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But I think we should not reduce our protest to a political perspective only. Our resistance was a republic of love, peace and humanity, and it was a republic on behalf of all stateless refugees in the world. We wanted to declare that we are human and we have a right to live. That's why in my manifesto I wrote: "This republic breaks all of the borders between human beings."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our resistance was built on dignity and genuine respect for difference. We were made up of many different individuals, ethnicities and beliefs, all resisting together.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zable: You express this poetically in your manifesto, when you write that "our resistance is the spirit that haunts Australia". You have also said that "all the conversations are driven by one thing, and one thing only, and that is freedom". During those dramatic weeks of resistance, it seemed that despite the great danger you faced - the threat of illness, exhaustion, food shortages, and even death - you took charge of your own fate, your own destiny, and achieved a kind of desperate state of freedom. Is this how the men felt during that time?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani: It's a great question, which creates a space for deeply understanding the resistance, and the true nature of the Manus prison. We were living under so many rules for years ... We were living through a dehumanising system for years, and a system that humiliated us and ignored our human identity for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What did the resistance give us? We achieved a great feeling for the first time. The hierarchy completely disappeared for the first time and the rules disappeared for the first time. For the first time, we were out of the system. The place was the same, and we were even close to death, but we were free, we had control over our lives for the first time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We created new rules for our community based on love, respect and peace. We created a society that was completely different from a system that was torturing us for years. We created a society based on concepts that were the opposite of the system that had robbed us of our humanity. We were close to death but we were living in freedom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zable: Yes, it was an extraordinary time, and it was reported worldwide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is several weeks since you were all forced from the camp. How do the men feel now? Does the spirit of the resistance live on? Especially since you are all well into the fifth year of your limbo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani: Manus prison camp has a long history, and to understand this prison we should look at the major incidents over the past five years: the 2014 riots; the murder of Reza Barati; the other refugees who have died; the hunger strike in 2015; the PNG Supreme Court decision; the Good Friday incident; and finally, our peaceful resistance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I think our period of resistance was a turning point in our long journey, because it was the result of many years' suffering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The event is over now, but the men learnt a lot, and they changed a lot. It was like living in a war zone ... we cannot have the same feeling as we had during that period, but the men are still definitely affected by the values and the spirit of resistance that we created ... as in many things, people are affected differently depending on their personalities and backgrounds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zable: There are 65 million refugees in the world today, and no one chooses to be a <b>refugee</b>. People forget so easily that their own ancestors were probably refugees. Perhaps the most difficult question concerns the role of luck in determining our fate. What have you learnt about this, and how do the men feel about this?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boochani: It's a very hard question and many refugees think they are very unlucky to have ended up on this remote island. I have heard many say: "I'm very unlucky I left Indonesia on this or that date."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I often think about it too, and tell myself "if my <b>boat</b> would not be lost, we could have arrived before July 19, 2013, when the decision was made to reopen Manus Island prison". But I think it's not fate or luck, it's a part of life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Life is full of such fates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I think the best way is to accept this, and that we should be ready to accept that anything can happen in our life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Arnold Zable is a Melbourne writer. This is the fourth piece in the Philoxenia series.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'I think we are human and don't have any shelter but humanity ... I belong to the humans beyond the political borders.' Behrouz Boochani
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The challenge to us all in Flinders St attack</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RJeacock </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>689 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When a man deliberately drives a car into a crowd of people the week before Christmas, it challenges us in all sorts of ways beyond the initial chaos and casualties. There's a challenge in the timing of it, as if it were an act designed to instil a sense of threat and inward retreat at a moment when our attention ought to be turning outwards. There's a challenge in the fact the man reportedly claims to have been motivated by the mistreatment of Muslims. Do we succumb to the lure of Islamophobia, or do we resist it?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There's a challenge to us in how we engage with our city: fearfully, frettingly, full of suspicion; or with a defiance that shrugs off this latest act of madness as terrible but in no way defining of us and our home. All available evidence so far suggests we have, wisely, chosen the latter course. Life goes on, as it will and must.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the biggest challenge of all is to our ability to find within ourselves something of the spirit of Christmas, regardless of our religious persuasion. Can we find tolerance, understanding, forgiveness?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Social media was quick to condemn the incident as an act of Islamic terrorism, though police have indicated there is no evidence as yet to support that conclusion. Voices of the far right leapt on it to condemn refugees and Muslims, even before anything was known about the identity of the driver or his motivations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our political leaders have been quick, too, to wheel out the sorts of phrases such an incident seemingly demands: Premier Daniel Andrews called it a "horrific act, an evil act, an act of cowardice perpetrated against innocent bystanders". Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull labelled it "despicable and cowardly". He noted that police had not labelled it an act of terrorism, but added the caveat "at this time". He noted, too, that the alleged driver, 32-year-old Afghan-Australian Saeed Noori, was a <b>refugee</b>, but tempered the dog whistling by acknowledging he had not come by <b>boat</b> but through "proper" channels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our leaders' responses are predictable and understandable but not necessarily helpful. They posit this act within a simplistic duality of good and evil, us and them, right and wrong. But if what we have so far been told about Noori turns out to be fact - that he has a history of mental illness and drug abuse, and that he was in a delusional state at the time of the incident - the truth of the matter is far more complex.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The causes of this horror might well have been psychosis and the scourge of ice. These are real threats to the people afflicted by them, those who live with or around them, and those who by random chance cross their paths at an inopportune moment. They affect far more people in this country than terrorism has ever done, yet they occupy far less space in the public consciousness or the political debate: close to zero, in fact. They demand we respond with major funding and innovative thinking, but where is the Peter Dutton-esque politician agitating to make this their area of special influence?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The challenge that this terrible incident poses to all of us is clear, though it's far from black and white. We must avoid leaping to easy, knee-jerk conclusions, and instead have the bravery and wisdom to grapple with complexities. We must avoid retreating into our shells and instead reach outwards, because suspicion is the solvent of social cohesion. We must demand our political leaders elevate mental health and drug abuse issues to the same level of importance as the threat of terrorism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What happened at the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth streets was terrible, shocking, unthinkable. Tragically, it will change the lives of its victims and their families and friends. It needn't and won't define Christmas for most of us, though. But we perhaps ought to let it shape our resolutions for the year ahead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must not retreat into our shells.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Lindsay Murdoch </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LIVES IN LIMBO</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almas saw her seven children and husband murdered during a wave of massacres in Myanmar. Now she and thousands of others face new threats as they languish in <b>refugee</b> camps, writes Lindsay Murdoch. Photos by Kate Geraghty</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sitting on the dirt floor in a flimsy bamboo shelter, Almas Khatun pulls a pink shawl from her face to reveal scars across her cheek and throat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I saw my family killed with my own eyes," says the softly spoken 40-year-old survivor of Tula Toli, the most horrific massacre in a pogrom of indiscriminate killing, mass rape and arson targeting Rohingya Muslim civilians in Myanmar.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almas says that every night she sees in her nightmares a soldier pulling her three-month-old baby from her lap and slashing open his stomach, moments before her house was set alight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She wakes and weeps amid a sprawling mass of <b>refugee</b> camps carved into hillsides in south-eastern Bangladesh, reliving the morning of August 30. That was when soldiers ran - shooting and shouting obscenities - into Tula Toli, a picturesque village that sits in a bend where two rivers meet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They shot my old father, they put a log of wood in his mouth and then slit his throat," Almas says, wiping tears from her eyes. "I keep thinking about my children. I couldn't save them. They killed seven of my children, my husband and his two brothers." Almas says 60 of her relatives who were living in three houses in the village are dead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Some were slaughtered by monks."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CHAOS AND TERROR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than a dozen previously interviewed witnesses to the massacre have said Buddhist monks were among the attackers, but Almas's detailed testimony implicates them directly in killings that took place in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, just across the border from Bangladesh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During 10 days in the camps, which are now home to more than 835,000 Rohingya, we interview dozens of survivors who describe unimaginable atrocities committed by government soldiers and Buddhist mobs in Myanmar's Rakhine State since August.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eight-year-old Mansur Alam, who also survived Tula Toli, tells us in a separate interview outside a makeshift Muslim school, on a hilltop overlooking the camps, that he saw monks slashing and shooting people in the village, including his own parents, as he hid in bushes. "The monks were in the forest and one slashed me on the head with a kirji (farming sickle)," he says, pulling apart his hair to reveal a scar across his scalp.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other witnesses have described women and girls being dragged into huts, their screams filling the air, before men left, locking the buildings and setting them ablaze.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Corpses were thrown into pits, doused in petrol and burned and others were thrown into the river, according to multiple witnesses. Almas says that somehow, amid chaos and terror, she ran for her life from the house as it burned and joined Mansur, the son of her neighbour, in the bushes, hiding among dead bodies, before both were discovered and slashed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We pretended to be dead," she says. "When the killers left I crawled away, dragging Mansur. We were bleeding but we somehow managed to walk through the forest to Bangladesh. We had no food or water for three days."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almas has now adopted Mansur as her son.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wide-eyed numbness</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Images of exhausted and starving Rohingya, many of them injured, stumbling across the Bangladesh border have shocked the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since August, almost 650,000 have made the journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">United Nations Human Rights Council</span> last week condemned the "very likely commission of crimes against humanity" by Myanmar security forces. In doing so, they ignored the denials of the country's government, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been widely criticised for failing to use her moral authority and domestic legitimacy to shift anti-Muslim sentiment in her country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees still arriving at the Bangladesh border say threats and intimidation are continuing against Muslims in their homeland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mass flight of the Rohingya has created humanitarian catastrophe in chaotic and disorderly camps rife with diseases, rapidly depleting and contaminated water supplies, overflowing temporary toilets, acute malnutrition, shortages of basic needs, child exploitation and trafficking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 25 years covering Asian crises, I have rarely seen such traumatised people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Look into many of the faces here and you see a wide-eyed numbness that experts say points to terrible suffering and trauma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Doctors Without Borders</span> says the first extensive survey in the camps indicates that between 9425 and 13,759 Rohingya were killed in Rakhine in the first 31 days of the violence, including at least 1000 children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of the children below the age of five who were killed, 59 per cent were shot, 15 per cent burnt to death in their homes and seven per cent beaten to death, the survey showed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What we uncovered was staggering, both in terms of the numbers of people who reported a family member died as a result of violence, and the horrific ways in which they said they were killed or severely injured," says Sidney Wong, the organisation's medical director.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Robert Onus, the Australian emergency response co-ordinator for <span class="companylink">Doctors Without Borders</span>, says refugees arriving at the border exhausted and not knowing what their futures hold creates a "sense of desperation that you see in people's eyes".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is a complex situation that is fast becoming a worst-case scenario," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"These families have been broken."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wayne Bleier,a psychosocial expert with the <span class="companylink">United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF</span>), says that, unlike survivors of many other conflicts, Rohingya are eager to tell their horror stories "because they want the world to know what happened".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A MOTHER'S ANGUISH</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rounding a corner on a narrow, dusty track, a small group of men wearing white Islamic skull caps beckon us to a shelter made of bamboo and plastic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Inside, 25-year-old Hasina has just finished bathing her dead two-year-old daughter, Eshoroma. They have placed palm leafs over her eyes and put on her prettiest frock.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eshoroma had suffered an itchy rash and fever for 10 days in the shelter just a 10-minute walk from a Bangladesh hospital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Measles is spreading rapidly through the camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hasina is wailing as Kate Geraghty, a stranger carrying cameras, is ushered into the shelter. They hug.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hasina gently strokes Eshoroma's body as it lies on a woven mat. This family fled their homeland with nothing but the clothes on their backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hasina has no money for a funeral and there is no land available in the camps for gravesites. We pay for Eshoroma to be buried in a mass grave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I am relieved. Now Allah will take care of my baby," Sobbir Hossain, the baby's 30-year-old father tells me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A children's crisis</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fifty four per cent of the refugees who have fled Myanmar in the past three months are children under 18.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A study by organisations including <span class="companylink">Save the Children</span> shows that one in four aged between six months and five are suffering acute malnutrition, and many more are severely malnourished.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is a children's crisis," says Elhadj As Sy, secretary-general of the Red Cross.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Robert Onus says families generally don't know how to access what limited health care is available in camps that stretch for kilometres across a peninsula in poor and overcrowded Bangladesh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They are worrying about their basic survival needs," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Laila Begum gently squeezes the ears of her 40-day-old baby as he clings to life, his tiny chest heaving on a bed in a Red Cross-tented field hospital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mohammad Ifran is so malnourished his skin is wrinkled like an old man's and his arms and legs are like twigs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The baby's eyes open only briefly as his mother turns to stroking his head, willing him not to give up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nobody knows how many babies are dying here in deplorable conditions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Laila has been unwell since giving birth to the baby, after making the perilous journey across the border from Myanmar.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He can't breastfeed properly. He remains hungry because he only gets a little milk from me," Laila says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Red Cross doctor by chance noticed the baby's critical state as Laila was holding him on her breast. Mohammad was just 1.8 kilograms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He would have died if he had not been treated almost immediately," says Norwegian nurse Anne Fjeldberg after declaring the baby off the critical list after two days of treatment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Amongst all this suffering some good things can happen too."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Little boy lost</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children are increasingly vulnerable in the camps when aid workers leave to meet a night-time curfew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They walk listlessly and barefoot through the narrow alleyways and tracks or spend days under a hot sun in lines waiting for food handouts. Some beg alongside roads.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 3000 unaccompanied and separated children have been documented but the actual number is much higher, aid workers say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rohimullah's little boy, Ayatullah, disappeared from his family's shelter while Rohimullah was praying at a mosque and his wife was preparing food inside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For 20 days, Rohimullah, 30, trudged through the camps until he could walk no more, holding a photograph of his 2year-old son.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A frantic Rohimullah searches for his missing son. "My child's mother has gone crazy."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"My child was playing with other kids outside and there were these two men who were there, giving them bits of food and all of them were eating it, so the other kids told me," Rohimullah says, weeping while squatting on a dusty pathway.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I don't have money to go searching for him. Someone told me a little boy was seen at a market far away and wanted money to bring him back."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ruhimullah's search meant he could not join the queues for food.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's been 20 days since we've eaten properly and we don't have money," he says. "My child's mother has gone crazy. I had to tie her up." But, like the baby saved in the Red Cross field hospital, a flash of hope comes amid despair.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After almost three weeks, Ayatullah was returned in the presence of Red Cross workers who had spread the word through community leaders and mosques to look out for him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> has found that camp children as young as 11 are getting married, often forced by their parents. Marrying off a daughter is one less mouth to feed and early marriage is a common practice among Rohingya Muslims. Children as young as seven are working for paltry pay as maids for Bangladesh families, and on farms, construction sites and fishing boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 281 child-friendly spaces set up by aid agencies throughout the camps, children have made crayon drawings depicting in chilling detail events they have witnessed in Rakhine, such as bodies in the streets, helicopter gunships and the arc of bullets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I lost four of my classmates and one of my teachers was killed too," a 16-year-boy said after presenting a drawing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rohingya are showing incredible resilience in the world's largest concentration of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Myanmar soldiers beat 21-year-old mother of two Shosma Begum when they attacked her village and killed her husband.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She can only move in extreme pain from a back injury but pushes herself to cut firewood and queue for food handouts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I do as much as I can," she says. "But it is difficult to feed my children."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Squatting before a cooking fire, Shosma gives a detailed account of how soldiers slashed and killed people in her village before setting houses on fire. She saw body parts being put in sacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A vicious cycle</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Myanmar has banned United Nations and human rights researchers and journalists entering Rakhine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But these are poor, uneducated villagers from an impoverished part of the country (also called Burma) that has been largely closed to the outside world for half a century.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Debra Blackmore, a Melbourne doctor working with the Red Cross supervising mobile health clinics for the camps, says it has been devastating to see families sitting on roadsides in monsoon rains with little but the clothes on their backs, after fleeing Rakhine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I have not seen anything like it before in my life," says Blackmore, who has worked in disaster and conflict areas across the world. "It is like the images I saw on television of Rwanda."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Robert Onus from <span class="companylink">Doctors Without Borders</span> says after several months in the camps the refugees' health is deteriorating further.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"People have reached their limits. There is a vicious cycle where the vulnerable are becoming increasingly vulnerable," he says, pointing to the camp conditions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Diseases eradicated in most other countries are now appearing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">World Health Organisation</span> says more than 110 suspected cases of the vaccine-preventable and deadly diphtheria have been clinically diagnosed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"These cases could be just the tip of the iceberg," says Navaratnasamy Paranietharan, the WHO representative in Bangladesh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is an extremely vulnerable population with low vaccination coverage and living conditions that could be a breeding ground for infectious diseases like cholera, measles, rubella and diphtheria."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Temporary toilets are overflowing and there are no private places. The stench of excreta is everywhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aid agencies say while more than half a million refugees have received limited aid, 173,000 of them have not received full food rations, 200,000 require emergency shelter and 120,000 pregnant and lactating women require nutritional support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mark Handby, a public health expert from Port Fairy working for the Red Cross, says one of the biggest problems is a lack of water as temporary hand pumps run dry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some deeper bores have drawn good-quality water but he fears others being sunk may be salt-contaminated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Handby has seen refugees drinking putrid water from ponds in paddy fields and also says the situation "ticks every box for a worst-case scenario".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aid agencies estimate the number of pregnancies could be as high as 10 per cent of the camp population, many of them as a result of rapes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The plight of Rohingya has captured the attention of the Muslim world, becoming a cause celebre like perhaps no other since Kosovo," the International Crisis Group said in a report last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One Rohingya approached me in a market and said: "If we do not get citizenship, we will go there and fight and destroy them all." Rumours are circulating about smugglers touting for passengers for a new wave of <b>boat</b> people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">International agencies also fear tensions could eventually erupt between Rohingya and local Bangladeshis who have so far been remarkably welcoming to their fellow Muslims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the camps begin stirring before sunrise, Mohammad Anis, a 54-year-old English teacher, lifts an old wooden radio to his ear, hungry for news from Rakhine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A tall, proud father of five wearing a white Muslim skull cap, Mohammad says Rohingya have basic demands that must be met before they return.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We must be treated with respect and acceptance," he says. "The Burmese planned to drive us away. How? By killing us and prohibiting us from marrying and having children. It is genocide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Living here in the camps we have good days and bad days but if we are forced to go back to Burma we won't go back … even if we are killed or burned here, that would be better than going back without justice."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To donate to a national appeal launched by Australian charities, visit www.dfat.gov.au/jointappeal[http://www.dfat.gov.au/jointappeal]
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>doctwb : Médecins Sans Frontières | unhrc : United Nations Human Rights Council</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gmssh : Rampage/Serial Killings | gcat : Political/General News | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | gmurd : Murder/Manslaughter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>burma : Myanmar | bandh : Bangladesh | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indsubz : Indian Subcontinent | sasiaz : Southern Asia | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020171217edci0000j</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020171216edch0000r" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>First refugees arrive under deal with US</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>James Massola </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>319 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thirty men, women and children fleeing gang violence in El Salvador have been granted <b>asylum</b> in Australia by the Turnbull government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The seven families are the first to arrive in Australia from Central America as refugees under a deal struck by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and then US president Barack Obama last year.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although few other details are available about the 30 individuals - in part to preserve their safety - <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> understands the main applicants and their families had been living in hiding in El Salvador and faced gang-related intimidation and violence before being transferred to Costa Rica.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, International Organisation for Migration and US government have established a "Protection Transfer Arrangement" in Costa Rica and, after referral by the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, the Australian government assessed the 30 people and granted them humanitarian visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton - who has been criticised by <b>asylum</b> seekers, the <span class="companylink">UN</span> and human rights groups for Australia's offshore detention system and a hardline approach to people attempting to arrive by <b>boat</b> - said the Turnbull government had "restored integrity to our <b>refugee</b> and humanitarian program".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a result, "the dividend of this is that we can provide the most vulnerable in the world the new start to their life that they deserve. This intake provides deserving people with an opportunity to start a new life in our country. It's a Christmas gift they could never have imagined possible a few years ago," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australia remains one of the top three countries for resettlement of refugees."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, the number of people fleeing gang violence in countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras has climbed in recent years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As part of the Turnbull-Obama deal, the US agreed to take as many as 1250 <b>asylum</b> seekers who were sent to Nauru or Manus Island by the Australian government.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gpol : Domestic Politics | ggangs : Gangs | gcat : Political/General News | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | gorgnz : Criminal Enterprises | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | elsal : El Salvador | cosr : Costa Rica | sydney : Sydney | usa : United States | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | camz : Central America | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | lamz : Latin America | namz : North America | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SHD0000020171216edch0000r</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SAGE000020171216edch0000o" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>US-deal refugees arrive in Australia</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>James Massola </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>293 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thirty men, women and children fleeing gang violence in El Salvador have been granted <b>asylum</b> in Australia by the Turnbull government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The seven families are the first to arrive in Australia from Central America as refugees under a deal struck by Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull and then US president Barack Obama last year.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although few other details are available about the 30 individuals - in part to preserve their safety - The Sunday Age understands the main applicants and their family had been living in hiding in El Salvador and faced gang-related intimidation and violence before being transferred to Costa Rica.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, International Organisation for Migration and US government have established a "Protection Transfer Arrangement" in Costa Rica and, after referral by the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, the Australian government assessed the 30 people and granted them humanitarian visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton - who has been criticised by <b>asylum</b> seekers, the <span class="companylink">UN</span> and human rights groups for Australia's offshore detention system and a hardline approach to people attempting to arrive by <b>boat</b> - said the Turnbull government had "restored integrity to our <b>refugee</b> and humanitarian program".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a result, "the dividend of this is that we can provide the most vulnerable in the world the new start to their life that they deserve. This intake provides deserving people with an opportunity to start a new life in our country."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As part of the Turnbull-Obama deal, the US agreed to take as many as 1250 <b>asylum</b> seekers who were sent to Nauru or Manus Island. After sharply criticising the "dumb deal", US President Donald Trump eventually agreed to honour the terms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So far, 54 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru were accepted by the US last September.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | elsal : El Salvador | cosr : Costa Rica | usa : United States | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | camz : Central America | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | lamz : Latin America | namz : North America</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SAGE000020171216edch0000o</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020171215edcg0002s" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sri Lankan <b>boat</b> people flown home</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Rourke Walsh </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>323 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A boatload of Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b> seekers was secretly flown out of Australia this week after being intercepted on an unseaworthy vessel off WA’s north-west coast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the <b>boat</b> containing 29 Sri Lankans was first detected near Cocos Island and was tracked towards mainland Australian before it was intercepted by Border Force officers on Wednesday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankan media reported the deportees — including two boys aged 12 and 15 — arrived back in the country on Thursday after being returned on a “special” flight from Learmonth Airport near Exmouth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said they did not comment on operational matters, but The Weekend West understands the <b>asylum</b> seekers were brought to the mainland by ABF officers and flown back to Sri Lanka.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the <b>boat</b> the <b>asylum</b> seekers attempted to travel to Australian on sunk and that they were returned home by plane because authorities believed their vessel was not seaworthy and could not be safely turned back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror news website reported the group are residents of four large towns on the country’s south coast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The website reported they had left Sri Lanka on November 17 in an attempt to “illegally migrate to Australia” but were arrested by Australian security forces on Wednesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Operation Sovereign Borders update, which covers the period of the incident, will not be released until next month.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has boasted in recent weeks that an <b>asylum</b> seeker vessel had not made it to Australian shores in almost 31/2 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have restored John Howard’s strong policies and as you know, there has not been a successful people smuggling expedition to Australia in well over 1000 days,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know we don’t have to theorise about border protection policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know what works and we know what doesn’t.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>srilan : Sri Lanka | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indsubz : Indian Subcontinent | sasiaz : Southern Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020171215edcg0002s</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020171215edcg00071" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Boatpeople back home after 24 hours in Australia</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RACHEL BAXENDALE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>291 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has flown 29 Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seekers back to their homeland, the Sri Lankan online news site ColomboPage says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It reported a group that ­included boys of 12 and 15 who were travelling with their father and uncle had left Sri Lanka for ­Australia by <b>boat</b> on November 17.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were reportedly arrested when they arrived at Learmonth Beach, near Exmouth, in northwest Western Australia on Wednesday, and were flown back to Sri Lanka on Thursday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton ­declined to comment on “operational matters” when asked to confirm the report.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The group was reportedly from the southern Sri Lankan districts of Matara, Hambantota, Hakmana and Tangalle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report came amid news that up to 200 refugees would leave Manus Island and Nauru next month for resettlement in the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition</span> spokesman Ian Rintoul, who is in touch with <b>asylum</b>-seekers on both islands, said the refugees included about 130 <b>asylum</b>-seekers from Nauru, and 58 from Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said it appeared US President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which prevents citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia from travelling to the US, was having an impact on ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers from those ­countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is very clear that they are not accepting people from Iran and Somalia,” Mr Rintoul said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said he was aware of a Som­ali family and a single Somali woman on Nauru who had been told they had not been accepted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They’ve been told that they can make a further appeal, but probably not until February,” Mr Rintoul said.He said many of those who had been accepted still had to pass medical checks.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>rfugee : Refugee Action Coalition</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | srilan : Sri Lanka | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indsubz : Indian Subcontinent | sasiaz : Southern Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020171215edcg00071</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020171215edcg000bc" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>NZ offer to take <b>asylum</b>-seekers sparks new boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHARRI MARKSON </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>188 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2017 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PEOPLE-smuggling operations have regained momentum after Bill Shorten urged the Turnbull government to consider sending <b>asylum</b>-seekers to New Zealand, Peter Dutton has declared.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Immigration Minister told The Daily Telegraph vulnerable people were being coerced into risking their lives with “dangerous” sea trips as a result of the Opposition Leader’s recent remarks that Australia should consider New Zealand’s offer to take 150 <b>asylum</b>-seekers from Manus Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton’s warning comes as Australian border officials intercepted and turned around an illegal <b>boat</b> headed for our shores with 29 Sri Lankans on board (pictured).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> arrival, understood to have occurred in November, confirms intelligence that people-smuggling syndicates are active in the region and continue to market their services using false promises of settlement in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is the 32nd <b>boat</b> to be returned since Operation Sovereign Borders started in September 2013.“It’s no surprise we get a <b>boat</b> off the back of Shorten’s announcement about opening up places in New Zealand for people off boats,” Mr Dutton said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nz : New Zealand | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020171215edcg000bc</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020171215edcg0002m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor hit on people trade</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHARRI MARKSON </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>290 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PEOPLE-smuggling operations have regained momentum after Opposition Leader Bill Shorten urged the Federal Government to consider sending <b>asylum</b> seekers to New Zealand, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has declared.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said vulnerable people were being coerced into risking their lives with “dangerous” sea trips as a result of the Labor leader’s recent remarks that Australia should consider New Zealand’s offer to take 150 <b>asylum</b> seekers from Manus Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His warning came after ­border officials intercepted and turned around an illegal <b>boat</b> headed for Australia with 29 Sri Lankans on board.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The incident, understood to have occurred last month, ­confirms intelligence that ­people-smuggling syndicates are active in the region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the 32nd <b>boat</b> to be returned since Operation Sovereign Borders started in September 2013 and, as of today, it has been 1237 days since a ­people-smuggling <b>boat</b> arrived on Australian shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eight hundred people have been intercepted and returned to their home country. Mr Dutton said the incident illustrated that the criminal people-smuggler syndicates had not gone away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Bill Shorten can be directly blamed for the sparked interest of people smugglers,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s no surprise we get a <b>boat</b> off the back of Shorten’s announcement about opening up places in New Zealand for people off boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s clear that if Labor were to win the next election, they neither have the capacity nor courage to stare down the ­people smugglers and the boats would restart.” Mr Shorten said last month that the Government should consider the offer by New Zealand to take 150 <b>asylum</b> seekers from Manus Island.“Turnbull should take (NZ) Prime Minister (Jacinda) Ardern’s constructive offer seriously,” he said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nz : New Zealand | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020171215edcg0002m</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020171215edcg00033" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sri Lankans at sea intercepted</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TOM MINEAR </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>174 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DOZENS of Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b> seekers have been picked up from a <b>boat</b> off the coast of Western Australia and flown back home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun understood a group of 29 Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b> seekers was intercepted by the Australian Border Force.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror has reported the group arrived this week and included children as young as 12.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They reportedly left Sri Lanka on a <b>boat</b> on November 17 and were stopped off the coast of Learmouth Beach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood they were intercepted at sea, likely because their <b>boat</b> was not seaworthy and Australian authorities believed they could not turn it back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border Force officials detained the group and put them on a flight back home to Sri Lanka, where they reportedly arrived today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has been almost three and a half years since a people smuggler’s <b>boat</b> reached Australia’s shores.But Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned in recent weeks that people smugglers are watching developments in Australia closely.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>srilan : Sri Lanka | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indsubz : Indian Subcontinent | sasiaz : Southern Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020171215edcg00033</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020171215edcg0002w" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Forum</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No, Peter Dutton, <b>asylum</b> seekers are not fashion victims</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Crispin Hull </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1126 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why does the minister want us to know that some refugees wear Armani?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Nice jacket, Dylan," I said to my grandson, a first-year university student, as he picked me up in the first week of summer at Canberra airport, where the outside temperature was a sizzling 12.5 degrees. "How much was it?'</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dylan: "I got it for five bucks at the Salvos."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Me: "Well done."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dylan: "Mum is so jealous she is going there to see what she can find."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And then I recalled my own impoverished university days 47 years ago and needing a dinner suit to go to an upcoming ball.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the son of an Anglican clergyman, I could not contemplate even hiring one, let alone buying. So I went to the Salvos and bought a dinner suit for 50 cents (about $5 in today's money).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Better than that, it was excellently tailored and in a middle-of-the-ground style, so as the lapels of new fashionable dinner suits got narrower and then double-breasted and then wider, mine never looked much out of place; I kept wearing it for more than 30 years. A bargain!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Charities do a splendid job recycling clothes. A lot are sent overseas, particularly to third-world countries that lack their own textile industries, such as Papua New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I recalled being in Mt Hagen in the New Guinea highlands and overhearing an Australian say to a local who was wearing, from memory, the T-shirt of a Sydney bowls club. "Good on you, mate, I'm a member there. It's a good club, isn't it?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He clearly didn't realise the T-shirt had been imported by a charity second-hand and that the local had never been to Australia, let alone his bowls club.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That was 2003. I later went to the very remote Kosomary River, a tributary of Sepik River, where I asked if I could have a paddle on a dugout canoe. "Only if you give us your T-shirt if you fall out," I was told.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Me: "OK." (It was a Canberra Times fun run shirt, as it happens.)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, a dugout with a wooden paddle is a very different proposition from my lightweight plastic kayak and carbon-fibre paddle in Australia. But never mind. I'll never know how I got the thing out into the current and safely back to shore. But I got some loud cheers from the locals, so I gave the canoe owner the Canberra Times shirt anyway.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I hope no visiting Australian finds him and says something like: "The Canberra Times event is a good fun run, isn't it? What was your time?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While I was recalling this, another thought dawned on me - about eight weeks too late. I should have realised it at the time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I'm talking about when, in late September, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton berated the first group of refugees to leave Australia's offshore detention centres to resettle in the United States, labelling them "economic refugees".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They're economic refugees, they got on a <b>boat</b>, paid a people smuggler a lot of money, and somebody once said to me that we've got the world's biggest collection of Armani jeans and handbags up on Nauru waiting for people to collect it when they depart," Dutton said, telling a 2GB shock jock exactly what the shock jock and his prejudiced audience wanted to hear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See the exploitation of hearsay to create a distorted impression. Masterful propaganda. Armani conjours up images of people with plentiful amounts of money to spend unnecessarily on expensive clothes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Guess what? People with plentiful amounts of money to spend on clothes want to be at the cutting edge of fashion. So they discard their designer Armani garments very quickly. The clothes are likely to appear quickly in the second-hand clothes markets of the third world because the first-world owners certainly don't keep them, like me, for 30 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is the eighth-highest exporter of second-hand clothes in the world at nearly $55 million a year, and is about fifth highest in the world when adjusted for the size of its economy. PNG, on the other hand, ranks among the highest importers of second-hand clothes when adjusted for national income.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So when refugees leave PNG, you are very likely to see them wearing or carrying some designer labels or, depending on your political viewpoint, some very cheap second-hand discards. Just as we saw women on sinking <b>refugee</b> boats desperately holding up their children to show their vulnerability or, depending on your political motive, threatening to throw them overboard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pardon the digression, but I have some first-hand experience here. A while ago, I was chairman of a national charity that, like most charities, was in the rag trade. Every year, this charity collected discards from all over Sydney, including from some very wealthy women who only wore their designer clothes once or twice - a bit like the Queen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well, for fairly well-heeled, but not extravagantly wealthy, women, an early-bird ticket to my charity's annual clothing sale was a bonanza and they were willing to pay a premium to get ahead of the hoi polloi to have first bite at the mega-wealthy's discards, from Armani labels to the specially tailored.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The propensity of the very wealthy to discard quickly gave me my dinner suit and Dylan his splendid jacket. It no doubt, too, gave the Nauru refugees their jeans and handbags, bought second-hand for next to nothing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I'm only sorry I didn't connect the dots eight weeks ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The instructive thing here is either the total disconnect of a conservative politician from people who at one stage in their lives bought second-hand clothes or, if he connected with it, chose to ignore it to gain a cheap political point.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The incident reminded me of the time Malcolm Fraser, as prime minister, courageously clamped down on family-trust income-splitting by imposing the top marginal rate on the income of all children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He imagined that the only income that could possibly obtained by children was a distribution from a family trust.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The world of 12-year-old paperboys and 15-year-old-holiday cherry-pickers was under his radar. Fraser's radar, of course, improved in later years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the mentality then was the same as the possibility that the Armani jeans proudly displayed by the Nauru refugees were bought for a trivial sum through the second-hand clothes market was not on the radar of a wealthy 2GB shock jock or his ministerial interlocutor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">crispinhull.com.au</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i453 : Clothing | iclt : Clothing/Textiles | icnp : Consumer Goods</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gfas : Fashion | gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | glife : Living/Lifestyle | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | auscap : Australian Capital Territory | canbrr : Canberra | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020171215edcg0002w</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020171215edcg0003i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Traveller</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>BEST FINDS 2017</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8326 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cover story | ANNUAL LIST</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every year, Traveller’s writers cover kilometres in the tens of thousands to track down the best experiences and adventures for you.In this special report, they’ve distilled the best of them into the Best Finds for 2017.  </p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HOTELS AND RESORTS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST NEW OVERWATER RESORT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marriott Fiji Momi Bay</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Overwater villas? Tick. Adults-only pool overlooking the dreamy Coral Sea? Tick. Languid lagoon, kids' club, family pool, swim-up bar and swish spa? Tick, tick, tick. The new Marriott Fiji Momi Bay is a fabulous new addition to Viti Levu's shores, ticking all the boxes for luxe South Pacific sojourns a short hop from home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See marriott.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST ECO-LODGE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Feynan Ecolodge, Jordan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three hours from the capital, Amman, Jordan's first ecolodge is a two-storey earthship that seems to grow out of the rugged landscape and takes its eco-credentials seriously. Architect-designed, off-grid and built in the nation's largest nature reserve, it's minimalist and monastic, solar-powered and staffed by Bedouin (it benefits about 80 local families), making it a truly Jordanian oasis of sustainable serenity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See ecohotels.me/feynan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST CITY HOTEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Whitby Hotel, New York</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Whitby is the second New York property by celebrated hoteliers Tim and Kit Kemp, of <span class="companylink">Firmdale Hotels</span>. Located two blocks from Central Park, it debuted in February with 86 beautifully designed rooms, many of which have private terraces (a rarity in Manhattan). Interiors bear Kit Kemp's trademark flamboyant design style while other amenities include a stylish restaurant, an art-filled orangery and a 130-seat cinema.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See firmdalehotels.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SUBCONTINENTAL HOTEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Imperial, New Delhi</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With its jasmine-scented corridors, turbaned doorman, art deco lines and manicured lawns, The Imperial in New Delhi positively exudes colonial glamour. Potter around admiring the art in the public areas or step inside The Spice Route to see the pan-Asian eatery's astonishing murals and artefacts. Better still, pop in during a quiet moment and ask a waiter to talk you through what amounts to an extraordinary installation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See theimperialindia.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HOTEL SOCIAL INITIATIVE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hotels rarely offer excellent ways of connecting with fellow guests. Kimpton, a boutique chain with 66 properties mainly in the United States, leads the way with a lively daily hosted wine hour in the lobby. In 2016, Kimpton poured 1.5 million glasses of wine during these get-togethers, which can also include live music, craft brews and, at Portland's Hotel Monaco, even the occasional Voodoo doughnut.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See kimptonhotels.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HOTEL TOILETRIES</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jumeirah, Etihad Towers</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stroll into the bathroom of your room at Abu Dhabi's Jumeirah at Etihad Towers and the first thing you'll notice is the stunning view over the United Arab Emirates capital. The second thing that will catch your eye is the toiletries - five bottles shaped exactly like the complex's sculptural arcing towers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See jumeirah.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST OFFBEAT HOTEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chateau Monfort Milan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This Relais & Chateaux hotel occupies a pink 1903 mansion with art nouveau elements, but the interior decoration is hip and contemporary, with owls, rabbits and butterflies a recurring quirky motif, and guestrooms themed on operas and fairytales. You might find your bed in the Nutcracker suite guarded by life-size wooden soldiers, or by fire-breathing dragons in the Turandot suite. The lounge-bar is inspired by Cinderella.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See relaischateaux.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST ENGLISH COUNTRY HOTEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Pig at Coombe, Devon, UK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The latest in the eclectic "Pig" hotel range, the Pig at Coombe opened last year in an Elizabethan mansion in the Devonshire countryside. In true "Pig" style, the property was given a modern makeover, removing all traces of its stuffy heritage and replacing it with contemporary furnishings. Large kitchen gardens provide much of the produce for the property's two excellent restaurants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See thepighotel.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HISTORIC B&B</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asheville, North Carolina</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, you could stay in a downtown hotel in the art deco gem that is Asheville in North Carolina - but why would you when you've got The Reynolds Mansion on the outskirts? The handsome brick B&B, built in 1847, has a connection to the Hope Diamond - the 45.5-carat blue gem said to curse anyone who owns it. But the best part about staying is the formal breakfast, presided over by flamboyant co-owner Billy Sanders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See thereynoldsmansion.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST ADAPTIVE USE HOTEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Silo, Cape Town</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cape Town's historic 1920s grain silo at the V&A Waterfront has undergone a creative transformation. The city's newest luxury hotel, The Silo, its 28 opulent rooms offering spectacular views of mountain and bay, shares the sleek industrial space with the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA). The hotel occupies the silo's grain elevator while the 42 silos house a museum comparable to London's Tate Modern, New York's MoMA and Madrid's <span class="companylink">Museo Nacional del Prado</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See theroyalportfolio.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST FAMILY RESORT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jean Michel Cousteau Fiji Island Resort</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The renowned five-star eco retreat Jean Michel Cousteau Fiji Island Resort has upped the ante with its new kids' Under the Sea and Teenager programs. Full-time nannies or buddies take young guests on rainforest hikes, spear fishing or raft making, while two resident marine biologists help them explore the underwater world through coral planting, snorkelling trips and diving orientation. Highlights include night snorkelling off the pier, bonfire building with guitars on the beach, kids' yoga, or simply the chance for parents to enjoy a candlelit dinner while little ones are tucked into bed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See fijiresort.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST COOL HOTEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">East, Miami</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new East in Miami is not just worth a visit for its rooftop bar, giant pool area and design touches (it's in the Arts District too), the <span class="companylink">Swire Group</span> has excelled in its choice of in-house restaurant, pairing with one of Uruguay's top restaurants, Parador La Huella, to formulate the concept for Quinto La Huella. Oh, and, back in the suite, the jar of White Rabbit lollies next to the bed is a great touch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See east-miami.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HOTEL CONCIERGE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tamas Takacs, Kempinski Hotel Corvinus, Budapest</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The golden crossed keys on Tamas Takacs' lapel indicate membership of the elite global group of concierges, Les Clefs D'Or, for whom there is no guest request they cannot deliver. Mr Tamas delivered big time when a broken tooth en route to Budapest threatened to ruin my 15-day river cruise. I emailed from Amsterdam, received a reply in 15 minutes, landed at 5pm and my tooth was fixed by a charming Budapest dentist by 8.30pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See kempinski.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The jar of White Rabbit lollies next to the bed is a great touch.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST VIEW FROM A HOTEL ROOM</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Explora Patagonia, Chile</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Walk into your room at this award-winning lodge and you could be forgiven for thinking it has a wall-sized mural of the Torres del Paine, the trio of granite spires synonymous with Patagonia. For each of Explora Patagonia's 50 rooms has jaw-dropping views so spectacular you'll feel torn between lying in your king-sized bed all day and setting off on a day-hike or a horse ride to put yourself in the picture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See explora.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST AFFORDABLE LUXURY HOTEL STAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Reverie Saigon, Vietnam</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The design at the Reverie Saigon is seriously lavish - marble floors, chandeliers, mosaic-tiled walls, floor-to-ceiling windows - and yet the prices are surprisingly reasonable for a beautiful five-star property in central Ho Chi Minh City. For as little as $300 a night guests can enjoy the true luxury experience, including buffet breakfast, plus access to the exclusive Reverie Lounge for high tea and sunset cocktails.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See luxuryescapes.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST ARISTOCRATIC RETREAT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Villa La Massa, Florence</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sitting right on the Arno River outside Florence, this 16th-century villa and its flower-filled gardens belonged to the Medicis - though a sumptuous spa and outdoor swimming pool are more recent additions. Stay in the daffodil-yellow main villa, which has an atmospheric, medieval hall surrounded by guest rooms graced with Renaissance-style four-poster beds, and you'll feel as if you're back in the days of the grand tour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See lhw.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST OUTBACK HOTEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prairie Hotel, South Australia</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It doesn't get much more quintessentially Aussie than South Australia's Prairie Hotel. This sophisticated outback pub is set in a historic stone building in remote Parachilna (population seven), on the plains just west of the Flinders Ranges. Guest rooms are surprisingly chic, and from the front patio you can catch spectacular sunsets with a glass of their Fargher Lager in hand. An ideal base for day trips into the desert, to discover ancient fossils and fascinating wildlife.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See prairiehotel.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST APARTMENT RENTAL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Apartments Actually, Paris</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Apartments Actually lets you take on Paris like a local, through their selection of elegantly styled apartments in the chic Marais neighbourhood, as well as sprawling houses in Provence. They'll arrange neighbourhood tours, private yoga and cookery classes, which means all you have to do is book your plane ticket.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See apartmentsactually.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST PRIVATE ISLAND</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dolphin Island, Fiji</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You hire a private Fijian island for you and seven friends. Each couple has their own elegant, timber-floored bure. Maybe you paddleboard around the island, maybe you have a massage, maybe you laze under the palms by the infinity pool. Whichever way, when you start to get peckish your personal chef will pull seafood from the ocean and cook it up for you. Sound like a fantasy? Dolphin Island is the real deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See dolphinislandfiji.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST AUSTRALIAN RESORT MAKEOVER</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Anchorage Port Stephens</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bay has had a fitting makeover to match its dreamy seaside surrounds, including luxe new spa, whisky bar, Hamptons-inspired rooms (almost every room has a balcony or terrace with water views) and infinity pool overlooking the marina. Nab a sun lounge by the pool with its dedicated Veuve Clicquot bar and revel in the nautical chic vibe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See anchorageportstephens.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HOTEL POOL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Johnson, Brisbane</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Michael Klim-designed 50-metre alfresco pool makes checking into this funky, arts- inspired hotel in Brisbane's Spring Hill even more rewarding. The fabulous lap pool overlooks the inner-city suburb's jacaranda-lined streets dotted with restored Queenslanders and miners' cottages. Surrounded by cabanas, sun lounges, a sundeck and gym with north-facing views, it's the perfect place for a cold ale, and some much-needed pool time. Oversized inflatable swan optional.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See artserieshotels.com.au/johnson</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TRANSPORT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST TRAIN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tren Crucero, Ecuador</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Board the 54-passenger Tren Crucero (Cruise Train) and watch Ecuador spool past at a stately speed as the luxury train chugs between Quito in the Andes and Guayaquil on the coast. The four-day journey is punctuated with hacienda stays and side trips that might include visiting the country's last ice merchant and a rose farm where blooms grow to an astonishing 1.5 metres long.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See trenecuador.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST NEW AIRPORT HOTEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mantra Sydney Airport</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When it comes to airport hotels, most travellers want location, efficient service, fast Wi-Fi, a decent meal and, let's face it, a pre-flight glass of wine. The brand spanking new 136-room Mantra Sydney Airport (Sydney's third on-airport hotel) has these essentials covered and then some: smartly designed, contemporary rooms (half of which offer views over the runway), super-slick service, including express checkout, and the ability to walk to the T2 and T3 domestic terminals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See mantrahotels.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST LIGHT RAIL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Downtown Los Angeles to downtown Santa Monica</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you're planning on visiting Downtown Los Angeles, but want a relaxed beachside holiday, consider basing yourself at Santa Monica and travelling between the two via the new Expo Line light-rail. Connecting the skyline to the coastline in about 45 minutes the extension adds seven new stations to the Metro Rail System. Trains run every six minutes during peak hour and take about 22 minutes; a single ride costs $US1.75 and a day pass $US7.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See metro.net</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST PUBLIC TRANSPORT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moscow</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moscow's massive subway system is clean, efficient and often described as the most beautiful in the world. Building began in 1935 with stations designed as Palaces for the People - many boast chandeliers, intricate plaster reliefs, monumental statues, mosaics and lavish marble and granite detailing. For 32 rubles (about 70¢) you can enjoy a ride that rivals many a museum visit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See visitrussia.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SHORT TRAIN JOURNEY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jose Cuervo Express, Mexico</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every Saturday morning the luxurious Jose Cuervo Express trundles between Guadalajara and Tequila, birthplace of the famous spirit and one of Mexico's fabled "magical" towns. Choose between Express, Premium Express or Premium Plus carriages for the two-hour journey, while sipping tequila cocktails and enjoying regional snacks. The itinerary also includes a tour of the La Rojena factory, visit to the agave fields of Jose Cuervo and bus transport back to Guadalajara.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See mundocuervo.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST IN-AIRPORT HOTEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aerotel Abu Dhabi</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You can virtually fall off the plane into bed at this hotel; it's right in the transit area of Abu Dhabi's international terminal. The 52 surprisingly quiet, spacious rooms in this new-concept transit hotel can be booked in six-hour blocks and have all the essentials covered from "power showers" and lounge access to complimentary Wi-Fi.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See myaerotel.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HELICOPTER FLIGHT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mauritius</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are helicopter flights ... and then there's swooping around the volcanoes, canyons, cirques, waterfalls and scenic rims of fantastical Reunion Island, where the peaks top out at 3069 metres. While neighbouring Mauritius has been worn down to nubs no higher than 828 metres, it's a different landscape altogether on Reunion, where you feel like you're flitting across the set of a Jurassic Park sequel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See corail-helicopteres.comtagCaptionCQ7Picture1 ID 8323325 MOSCOW, RUSSIA - AUGUST 7, 2014:Komsomolskaya is Moscow Metro station. It is one of busiest in whole system and is most loaded one on line. It opened on 30 January 1952. Komsomolskaya Moscow metro station Moscow Metro underground tagCaptionCQ8Picture2 ID 8323253 Tren Crucero, Ecuador</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PLACES AND JOURNEYS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST EUROPEAN CITY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lisbon</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Magnificent historic buildings, ornate churches, brooding castle on a hill, great food, friendly people and shockingly easy to navigate plus, according to our tuk-tuk driver, no good reason for terrorists to blow bits of it up are among the advantages to visiting Lisbon. Yes, you read that right: tuk-tuks are thriving in Portugal's hilly coastal capital. Hugely underrated and great fun, especially in the buzzy old quarter down towards the port.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See visitlisboa.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST ART MUSEUM</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">The Louvre</span> Abu Dhabi</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In November, the Louvre Abu Dhabi finally opened its doors, showcasing works from its Paris namesake and a dozen other French galleries, as well as pieces drawn from its own collection. Like Hobart's MONA, the juxtaposition of artworks from different cultures and eras delights and challenges - but nothing beats popping out at the end under the museum's Jean Nouvel-designed star-spangled silver dome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See louvreabudhabi.ae</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST ALL-ROUND ADVENTURE DESTINATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Yukon, Canada</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While sparsely populated, the wild territory of north-west Canada known as the Yukon is an adventurer's paradise. Each year the region hosts the Yukon Quest, a gruelling 1600-kilometre dog-sled race alternating between the capital Whitehorse and Fairbanks Alaska. While it's this spectacle that often draws the crowds, it's also possible to have your own adventure of a lifetime. Watch the Northern Lights from a cabin, visit picturesque goldrush towns, tear through wooded backcountry on a snowmobile, trek the Chilkoot Trail and even drink a cocktail with a severed human toe in it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See travelyukon.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST UNDERRATED AUSTRALIAN BEACH</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tweed Coast, NSW</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Byron's Main Beach heaves with beachgoers, and it's hard to find a spare patch of sand on the glittering Gold Coast to the north, somewhere in between lies 37 kilometres of pristine, crowd-free coastline. The Tweed Coast's long sweep of pandanus-fringed sands are postcard perfect, and surprisingly have escaped the attention of mass beachgoers. The stretch from Cabarita Beach (home to the renowned Halcyon House) to Kingscliff in the north is particularly fetching.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See tweed.nsw.gov.au/beaches</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST US TOWN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Woodstock, New York</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Get out of New York City and head directly to the Catskills, which is undergoing a rejuvenation. Motels are being converted, diners hipsterised (try the Phoenicia Diner just out of town) and there are streets full of cool bookshops and boutiques. Plus there are great hikes and lakes. And nearly 50 years after the Woodstock Festival it's still the preferred sanctuary for a new generation of musicians, with recording studios galore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See woodstockchamber.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST VISITOR-FRIENDLY ART GALLERY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Historic Salts Mill, Shipley, Yorkshire</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This gallery not only houses a permanent collection of David Hockney's work - within its immaculately restored spaces you can shop for books, art materials, contemporary homewares and jewellery, antiques and posters. There are two stylish restaurants and a cafe and you can even hire bikes on-site to explore adjoining Saltaire village, built in 1853 to house the mill workers. A grand day out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See saltsmill.org.uk</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST RIVER REVIVAL PROJECT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">San Antonio River, Texas</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The famous 24-kilometre San Antonio River Walk - already a world leader in urban park design - has picked up the 2017 Thiess International Riverprize award for its conservation and recreation efforts. After a $US530 million upgrade, the River Walk now has more walking, cycling and paddling routes, more art installations, improved aquatic and riparian habitats, and better connections between cultural attractions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See sara-tx.org</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST REMOTE REGION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shaktihimalaya, India</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With its wild landscapes, Buddhist monasteries and peaceful vibe, it can seem as though Ladakh isn't part of India at all. Although this high-altitude desert bordering Pakistan and China opened up to foreigners only in the 1970s, today visitors are flocking in search of adventure (snow leopards roam the region) and sheer serenity. Those after a high-end experience can stay in local homes transformed via a hip makeover.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See shaktihimalaya.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST BOOKSHOP</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Livraria Lello, Porto, Portugal</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's been said this neo-gothic, art nouveau and art deco beauty in Porto's ancient Vitoria district was an inspiration for J.K. Rowling's fantasy Harry Potter series. There are enough Hogwarts to this magical emporium to believe it. The 1906 building is a living door to history with its intricate decoration, friezes, busts and bronze bas-reliefs of Portuguese literary figures, magnificent crimson art-nouveau double-helix staircase, stained-glass skylight and, oh yes, books - 60,000 of them, some in English. Plus coffee shop.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See livrarialello.pt</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST OLD TRADE ROUTE ADVENTURE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tea Horse Road, China</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Following ancient pathways carved by traders from the tea-producing regions of Yunnan in China to the Bay of Bengal, via Tibet, the Tea Horse Road provides a memorable modern-day journey through some of the world's most spectacular mountain scenery. This is also a fantastic way to get acquainted with ethnic Tibetan culture - the food, the religion, the customs - which spreads far beyond the borders of that famously disputed territory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See worldexpeditions.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST PEOPLE (AND DOG) WATCHING</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Buenos Aires</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wander through one of Buenos Aires' many parks and you'll see professional dog-walkers (paseador de perros) taking up to a dozen pedigree pooches out while their apartment-dwelling owners are at work. Amazingly, the dogs lie down obediently together outside cool cafes when the walkers stop for a coffee and a chat - no fighting or barking allowed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST LESSER-KNOWN RUINS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Uaxactun, Guatemala</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tikal is Guatemala's version of Chichen Itza, an impressive set of Mayan ruins that attracts an impressive set of crowds. What's less well-known is that 23 kilometres further north, in the middle of a national park, is another set of ruins called Uaxactun, which hardly anyone ever visits. An overnight stay with Chimu Adventures includes a sunset drink on top of a Mayan temple and a delicious, locally prepared meal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See chimuadventures.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST FORTIFIED CITY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mdina, Malta</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The early Arab capital of Malta sits on an inland outcrop with commanding views. Fortified walls enclose an almost perfectly preserved medieval and baroque town of meandering alleys, honey-coloured stone and sunlit squares. The cathedral is colourful with coats-of-arms and frescoes. Settle into the 17th-century palazzo The Xara Palace for an old-world feel, spectacular views and a Relais & Châteaux restaurant serving fine Maltese and Mediterranean cuisine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See visitmalta.com, relaischateaux.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST WALKING TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Galle Fort Walks, Sri Lanka</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Sri Lankan history is like a Game of Thrones," says tour guide Shanjei Perumal, "and no one saw the White Walkers coming." This unique tour of the Galle Fort - including Shanjei's pop-culture-friendly explanation of colonialism - is the perfect introduction to local history and culture. Shanjei tailors his tours to guests' desires, with everything from architecture to street food becoming the focus of a stroll through Sri Lanka's most charming city.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See gallefortwalks.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST GARDEN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jardin Exotique, Monaco</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This fabulous garden is surprisingly overlooked, perhaps because it perches high on the cliff-side aloof from Monaco's glamorous port. Its collection of cactus and dry-climate plants is wonderful, though it's easy to be distracted by plunging views over the Mediterranean, Monte Carlo and royal palace. Caves beneath the gardens provide another wholly unexpected collection, this time of stalactites and stalagmites. This is Monaco's best-kept secret, and a must-see.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See jardin-exotique.mc</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST TUSCAN HILLTOP TOWN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Radicofani, Italy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like people, certain places stand out. This elevated old town and medieval fortress, rising above the rolling Val D'Orcia landscape and visible for miles around, is a Tuscan town in perfect form. Over summer join laidback locals in Piazza San Pietro on the sunny church steps, at the cafe bar or on a park bench with a view. The best way to find yourself in Radicofani is as a cycling pilgrim on the Via Francigena.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See utracks.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HISTORIC NEIGHBOURHOOD</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Teahouse district, Kanazawa</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Though Kyoto's famous teahouse district, Gion, is often filled with far more gawkers than geishas, in Kanazawa, a few hours north-east, it's a different story. Though the city boasts three separate teahouse districts, each with paved pedestrian streets lined with beautiful, traditional wooden buildings, the visitor numbers here are far lower than Kyoto, meaning you'll be able to enjoy the tranquillity these areas were originally designed for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See jnto.org.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST LAKE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tegernsee, Germany</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Though just 48 kilometres south-west of Munich in the much-visited Bavarian Alps, beautiful Tegernsee has few international visitors, leaving you with a pleasing sense of being among weekending locals. Pretty towns flank the lake, cupped in verdant hills. Kick back at glamorous <span class="companylink">Leading Hotels of the World</span> property Seehotel Überfahrt right on the lakeshore's fine walking paths and you'll be in a happy, flower-draped place.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See tegernsee.com, lhw.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is Monaco's best-kept secret, and a must-see.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FOOD AND DRINK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SALAD</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Octopus salad, Oliver Avenida restaurant, Hotel Avani, Lisbon</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chef Olivier da Costa is a bit of a culinary poster boy in Portugal - and deserves to be known further afield, if only for his softly delicious octopus salad. Thinly sliced and served carpaccio style with chopped tomato, red onion, bell peppers and coriander on a long rectangular plate, it not only tastes wonderful but is so perfectly arranged that it's a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See minorhotels.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST BEER</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bia Hoi, Hanoi</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hanoi's "bia hoi" bars - rowdy, cheap neighbourhood joints that brew their own beer and serve affordable and tasty food to go with it - are the perfect venues for anyone looking to mix with locals and sample authentic cuisine. Simply pull up a plastic stool at a low table, order a beer for less than $1, grab snacks like fried quail or air-dried beef, and soak up the atmosphere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See vietnamtourism.gov.vn</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST TROPICAL COCKTAIL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Countess, Fish Bar, Marriott Fiji Momi Bay</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sundowners don't come much better than the Countess with its perfect juxtaposition of sweet and sour. The citrusy wonder, served up by talented bartenders at the Fish Bar at the new Marriott Fiji Momi Bay, is a zingy mix of vodka, limoncello, <span class="companylink">Campari</span> and fresh grapefruit juice, served over ice with flamed orange zest. The Countess is best enjoyed watching a blazing Fiji sunset, with sand squelching between your toes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See marriott.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST FOOD TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Midnight tuk-tuk food tour, Bangkok</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many visitors shy away from trying Bangkok's street food but this tour removes all the guesswork by taking you straight to the best vendors. As well as sampling authentic versions of Thai classics such as pad thai and chicken rice, the tour visits a secret rooftop bar, a temple and a flower market. How do you get around? By tuk-tuk, of course - a quintessential Bangkok experience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See bangkokfoodtours.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST COFFEE TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cafe Ruiz coffee tour, Panama</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Panama has a secret. As well as having a famous canal, it also produces some of the world's most expensive coffee. Located in the stunning cloud forests near Boquete, Cafe Ruiz grows the rare geisha variety of the arabica coffee plant. This entertaining tour explains the coffee-making process and includes a taste of the finished product, which can sell for up to $40 a cup.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See caferuiz-boquete.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST UNCONVENTIONAL WINE TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Waiheke wineries by horseback, New Zealand</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why drive to a winery when you can arrive by horse? Located a 40-minute ferry ride from Auckland, Waiheke Island has many vineyards and on this tour you'll visit two of the best on horseback. Cable Bay and Mudbrick both have welcoming cellar doors and restaurants with stunning ocean views. Enjoy tastings and a sumptuous lunch then ride back along the island's pristine beaches.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See waihekehorseworx.co.nz</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SMALLGOOD</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Presunto, Portugal</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You hear the Portuguese talk about presunto and you think, "Yeah, right". The locals say this cured ham is as good as Spain's famous jamon iberico. They say it's produced from the same black-footed pigs, it has the same rich butteriness, the same meaty lushness. Sure, you think. It can't be that good. And yet, sample presunto in the delis and restaurants of Lisbon and you have to accept that not only is presunto as good as jamon - it might just be better.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See visitportugal.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SWEET TREAT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Habibah Sweets, Amman</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You'll see the queue before you see the restaurant. Amman locals line up around the block day and night to grab their slice of the city's best knafeh, a traditional sweet treat of baked cheese and semolina, from Habibah Sweets. A slice of this delicious dessert, carved roughly from a huge metal tray and slung across the counter with little ceremony, will set you back about a dollar, and will have you on a sugar high for hours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See onthegotours.com/jordan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST AUTHENTIC NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Louisiana Bistro, French Quarter</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locals are always in the kitchen, serving the food and at the next table in Louisiana Bistro where the timeless flavours of New Orleans jam with cutting-edge creative Creole cuisine. Spontaneously composed tasting menus always include twists on the classics and, despite being smack bang in the tourist hub, high standards are sustained.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See louisianabistro.net, visittheusa.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST LEAST EXPECTED FOODIE DESTINATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bruny Island, Tasmania</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's just a 100-kilometre long dot off the coast of Tasmania but Bruny Island is a foodie paradise. There's the Bruny Island Cheese Company, Get Shucked oysters, a chocolate-cum-fudge factory, a berry farm and Bruny Island Premium Wines (the most southerly vineyard in Australia) which knocks out cold climate pinot noir and chardonnay. Wherever you go on the island you'll also find Bruny Island Game Meat for sale, all shot locally. Go hungry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See brunyisland.org.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST AFTERNOON TEA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mondrian Hotel, London</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Forget that traditional British arvo tea malarkey and head to the Mondrian Hotel's funky Dandelyan bar for Wyld Tea. Settle into the purple leather sofa and hoe into elderflower compressed cucumber and burnt herb cream sandwiches and '70s-style cakes with a twist (blackcurrant and verbena Battenberg cake, anyone?). Wash it all down with weird and wonderful botanical cocktails such as the Fluff & Fold Royale with lime, basil, cacao liqueur, orange bitters and prosecco.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See morganshotelgroup.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST LOCAL RESTAURANT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adraga Seafood, Adraga beach, Portugal</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Found quite by happy accident, this little white cube of a restaurant sits right on the edge of the beach. It bustles with local families so it's best to book (they squeezed us in) but this is no-frills, no-fuss, fresh seafood cooked simply. They even give us a free tasting plate of percebes, the little claw-like local delicacy also known as goose barnacles. An unexpected but wonderful discovery.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See restaurantedaadraga.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST NOODLES</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cao Lau, Hoi An</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They say it's the water in Hoi An that's the secret to cao lau, a dish of thick, chewy noodles with slices of pork, crispy crackling and fresh herbs that's become so famous in central Vietnam, and is one of the country's best meals. At Cao Lau Thanh, a scruffy outdoor restaurant just outside the historic centre of Hoi An, cao lau is served up fresh and delicious every morning, and it costs about $1.50 a bowl for absolute perfection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See vietnamtourism.gov.vn</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST PUB</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Marksman, Hackney Road, East London</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This unassuming Victorian pub in hipster central manages to provide the best of both worlds. Downstairs it's a genuine corner boozer full of locals quaffing tap beers while upstairs it's serving traditional British food to such a high standard it was named Michelin Pub of the Year this year (2017). Think rissoles, pheasant pies, lemon sole, dripping spuds and British Beenleigh Blue cheese. Go the three-course Sunday lunch for £33 and come away grinning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See marksmanpublichouse.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST FEEL-GOOD COOKING CLASS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Sarojin "Street Food Cook for Kids", Khao Lak, Thailand</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What sets The Sarojin apart from other luxury resorts is its dedication to the local community, a commitment that began in response to the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. By participating in "Street Food Cook for Kids", guests at The Sarojin have the opportunity to prepare and deliver nutritious meals to children with special needs at the nearby Camillian Social Centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See sarojin.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST FOOD TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Taste of Lisboa, Lisbon</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lisbon foodie Filipa Valente's popular walking tours provide a great introduction to the city's underrated gastronomic scene. There are two itineraries to choose from: the "Tram 28 Walk", an exploration of the Campo do Ourique neighbourhood and its traditional flavours; and the "Downtown-Mouraria Walk", which takes in Lisbon's multicultural gastronomic influences, as well more familiar local dishes. Whichever you choose, you'll receive expert guidance from Valente, and a belt-stretching selection of Lisbon's best cuisine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See tasteoflisboa.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SOUTH AMERICAN DINING EXPERIENCE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Food and Wine Studio by Pilar Rodriguez, Chile</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Celebrated Chilean chef Pilar Rodriguez invites diners into her home in the Colchagua Valley wine region to sample her delicious cuisine in an intimate setting. Food and Wine Studio is part culinary school, part catering company, and part restaurant, the doors of which are only thrown open on weekends for groups who book in advance. The experience, dining with Pilar among the grape vines on some of Chile's best cuisine, is worth the effort.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See pilarrodriguez.cl</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST AFFORDABLE WINE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Portugal</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While it's often overshadowed by better-known offerings from France and Spain, the wine of Portugal is extremely good, and almost unbelievably cheap. There are 29 distinct wine regions in the country, from the famous Douro Valley to lesser-known DOC areas such as Alentejo and Tras-os-Montes, and all produce multiple varietals of the highest quality. And if you're paying more than a few euros a glass, you're being ripped off.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See visitportugal.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SANDWICH</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Madam Khanh the Banh Mi Queen, Hoi An</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's hard to know exactly what it is that makes Madam Khanh's banh mi - the traditional Vietnamese pork roll - so good. It might be the soft-but-crunchy baguettes, baked fresh. It might be the sweetly spicy chilli sauce, the recipe to which will probably remain a secret forever. It could be the balance of farm-style pate with pickled green papaya and fresh herbs. Or, more likely, it's a combination of all these that makes this one of the world's greatest sandwiches.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See vietnamtourism.gov.vn</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CRUISE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST NEW CRUISE SHIP</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Silver Muse</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Launched in April, Silversea's flagship 596-passenger vessel is an upmarket European-styled gem that stands out in the mostly American cruise world. It has generous public areas, an impressive choice of eight dining venues - its Atlantide seafood restaurant is outstanding - and abundant outdoor public areas. A toned-down, uncluttered decor adds to the sense of space, and indulgences include an expansive spa, several chic bars and cabin butler service.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See silversea.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST CRUISE SHIP DECOR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Viking Ocean Cruises</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Viking's near-identical ocean ships share a chic but understated, informal Scandinavian design ethos that uses plenty of light, birch and pine wood, slate, limestone and woven textiles. The feel is stylish but homey, whether you're having afternoon tea in the Wintergarden or cocktails in the Explorer Lounge. The result is akin to a boutique hotel, and perfectly suited to unshowy people with a liking for unpretentious comfort.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See vikingcruises.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SHORE EXCURSION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Celebrity Cruises</span> in St Petersburg</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Celebrity's Baltic cruises call at St Petersburg for three nights, and it's worth booking a three-day excursion package for a comprehensive overview of this fabulous city: scattered sights are hard to get around by yourself, and you'll save steep Russian visa fees thanks to a group-tour visa-waiver program. Informative tour guides provide a comprehensive look at the Hermitage Museum, palaces and churches of this extraordinary baroque city.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See celebritycruises.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST CRUISE SHIP DESSERT BUFFET</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ponant</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The French-flagged cruise line, Ponant, is a haven of Gallic gastronomy, which is apparent in the truly divine dessert offerings from its pastry chefs. From creme brulee to macarons to chocolate pistachio tarts to marquise au chocolat to strawberry pate de fruit and out-of-this-world gelato made every day, it takes great willpower not to head direct to the Ponant dessert buffet, which groans with hedonistic, hip-augmenting goodness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See au.ponant.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SMALL-SHIP DESTINATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Channel Islands</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A benefit of small-ship cruising is the ability to visit tranquil ports inaccessible to larger vessels. APT's "Southern European Sojourn" itinerary between London and Barcelona calls first at the Channel Islands, where shore excursions to St Peter Port (Guernsey) and Sark are made by tender. These are great small-ship ports; Sark in particular has no traffic, only horse carts, and feels like stepping into an Enid Blyton story.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See aptouring.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SHIP COMFORT FOOD</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Uniworld</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Uniworld's latest ultra-luxurious river ship, SS Joie de Vivre, cruises France's Seine river from Paris to Normandy. The ship's elegant decor and fine wining and dining reflect all things French; a bowl of French onion soup in the authentic-looking Le Bistrot is as good as any you'll find in a Parisian bistro. Bon appetit!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See uniworld.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST ALTERNATIVE CRUISE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bai Tu Long Bay, Vietnam</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There's a sight you become used to in Vietnam's Halong Bay: boats. Hundreds of them. This is one seriously popular destination for short cruises. Those who would like to steer clear of the masses, however, should take a three-day cruise through Bai Tu Long Bay, the equally impressive, though far quieter area just to the north of Halong. Bai Tu Long's scenery - huge limestone karsts, still waters - is the same, but the crowds are not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See indochina-junk.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ship's elegant decor and fine wining and dining reflect all things French.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NATURE AND OUTDOORS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST NEW WALK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seven Peaks Walk, Lord Howe Island</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the newest Great Walks of Australia, this five-day hike is also a new way to experience Australia's favourite little World Heritage-listed island. It's a week of natural highs, taking you to spots off-limits to most visitors and culminating in the summit of the 875-metre Mount Gower, with plenty of time for marine activities, sunset drinks and four-course dinners at Pinetrees Lodge, voted best hotel in Australia by <span class="companylink">TripAdvisor</span> earlier this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See pinetrees.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST FIORDS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scoresby Sund, East Greenland</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bigger is not always better but in the case of the world's largest fiord system it really is. Explore its enormous arms and elbows from the water or on foot to see calving glaciers, high-rise sized icebergs, Uluru-like cliffs, vast tundra meadows, awesome peaks and arctic wildlife. Meet the local people of Ittoqqortoormiit (pop 467), Scoresby Sund's only permanent settlement, who consider their world "the edge of life".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See hurtigruten.com; bentours.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST MARINE LIFE EXPERIENCE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stingrays New Zealand</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clamber into waders and, with the help of a steadying bamboo pole, inch out into the ocean's shallows and have stingrays' velvety backs glide past you at Tatapouri Bay near Gisborne on New Zealand's North Island. Barracuda chunks entice the eagle rays and short-tail stingrays to cruise onto a rock ledge near your feet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See divetatapouri.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST E-BIKE TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mauritius</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Forget lazing about your Mauritian resort. Hop on an electric bike to cruise the island's southern villages, kite-surfing beaches, backroads and more with Electro Bike Discovery. Guide Laurent Marrier d'Unienville can also show you the commemorative sculpture of explorer Matthew Flinders, held captive on the island for more than six years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See electrobikemauritius.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST GLAMPING EXPERIENCE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sal Salis, Western Australia</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sal Salis is the only accommodation set inside the UNESCO-protected Cape Range National Park, clasped between the crystalline waters of Ningaloo Reef and the rusty outback beyond. So it feels as though you have the park to yourself, as you lounge in your glamping tent watching roos bounce along the dunes, or sip rosé on the private beach. Sunrise gorge hikes put you face-to-face with wallaroos, while reef <b>boat</b> trips see you swimming alongside whale sharks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See salsalis.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST ADVENTURE HUB</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bend, Oregon</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This adventure lover's paradise near the Cascade mountain range has 480 kilometres of mountain bike trails, 1500 hectares of skiing and snowboarding terrain and 1000-plus climbing routes. Oh, and it gets 300 days of sunshine a year. Throw in 26 breweries, four wineries and a dining scene that rivals many major US cities and it's easy to see why it's become one of America's fastest growing towns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See visitbend.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HOT SPRING EXPERIENCE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jordan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Picture this: you're inside a canyon at 400 metres below sea level, having all your worldly concerns washed away by mineral-rich hot spring waterfalls. When you're done soaking you head to the spa: massage, scrub, or facial? Post-pamper, you watch the sun set over the starkly beautiful canyon, and eat a decadent dinner accompanied by live Jordanian music. Days at Ma'In Hot Springs Resort, just 20 minutes from the Dead Sea, really are this magical.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See visitjordan.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST CONSERVATION EXPERIENCE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Libaran Island, Borneo</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A 40-minute <b>boat</b> ride from Sandakan in Malaysian Borneo sits Libaran Island, home to a turtle hatchery and eco-camp that's attempting to raise numbers of Green and Hawksbill turtles. After a day spent swimming and chatting with local villagers on this mangrove-fringed island (which was covered in rubbish until being reclaimed in 2011), visitors can watch baby turtles hatch at dusk, then release them into the ocean. Afterwards, dinner and low-fi glamping await.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See gadventures.com.au/borneo</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HIKE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bay of Fundy Footpath, New Brunswick, Canada</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This spectacular wilderness trail begins at the suspension bridge at salmon river, meandering for 41 kilometres through a series of dense woodland switchbacks and alongside the stunning coastline skirting the boundaries of Fundy National Park, home to the world's highest tides. Though fairly strenuous, this is an utterly rewarding three to five-day hike. It's best tackled between June and September.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See fundytrailparkway.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST MOTORHOME FOR TOURING AUSTRALIA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Apollo Euro Slider</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Apollo Euro slider is like a your favourite pair of stretch pants - when required, the mid-section expands to provide an extra 30 per cent girth. The first slide-out motorhome ever launched on the Australian market the vehicle sleeps four (a private double bedroom with separate toilet and shower, and another double bed above cab) and comes with TV, iPod docking station, airconditioning, linen, pillows, towels and fully equipped kitchenette.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See apollocamper.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a week of natural highs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST UNDERWATER EXPERIENCE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Diving with manta rays, Lady Elliot Island</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There's little that can compare, in the underwater world at least, with the feeling of finning through the warm ocean that surrounds Lady Elliot Island, peering into the watery distance and spotting the shape of a huge manta ray gliding towards you. These majestic creatures visit Lady Elliot, off the central Queensland coast, year-round, meaning there's always a chance of enjoying this awe-inspiring experience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See ladyelliot.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST DRIVE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carretera Austral, Chile</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 1200-kilometre stretch of highway that runs from Puerto Montt in southern Chile to Villa O'Higgins in Patagonia is not a highway as you know it: many of the sections of this spectacular road remain unpaved, merely dirt tracks that wind their way through some of the most remote and beautiful sections of northern Patagonia. A drive on the Carretera Austral will take you through forests, fiords, glaciers, lakes and mountains. It's an unforgettable journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See chile.travel/en</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST CYCLING TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Intrepid's Cycle Japan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Japan is so busy, so fast, so hectic, that it's natural that you would want to slow down here, to take it all in at a leisurely pace. And that's what's so great about Intrepid Travel's new Cycle Japan tour: this 14-day bike trip through the Osaka, Kyoto, Ishikawa and Tokyo prefectures forces you to relax and appreciate the little things, the countryside, the coastline, the food and the people. It's a unique and beautiful way to experience Japan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See intrepidtravel.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST UNFENCED BIG GAME EXPERIENCE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Urikaruus Wilderness Camp, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shaded by camel thorns and overlooking a waterhole rich with lions and cheetahs, Urikaruus is a tiny gem in the great, red-duned thirstland of the World Heritage-listed Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, tucked between South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. Urikaruus, unfenced and inexpensive, has only five stilted chalets connected by a wooden walkway. Best for intrepid travellers, it provides front-row seats to Africa in all her wondrous wildness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See sanparks.org</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST WILDERNESS CAMP SITE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tapotupotu Bay, New Zealand</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wake to the sound of surf at Tapotupotu, New Zealand's northernmost unpowered wilderness campsite, close to Te Rerenga Wairua - Cape Reinga, the great "leaping place" for Maori spirits beginning their final journey. The Department of Conservation campsite is unpowered, surrounded by lush forest, surf and lagoon, shaded by New Zealand Christmas trees with their scarlet plumage. Surf, fish, scuba dive or swim at the beach or hike the four-day Te Paki Coastal Track.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See doc.govt.nz</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST CAMINO EXPERIENCE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Botafumeiro, Santiago de Compostela</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's unusual, satisfying and mystical - to witness the swinging of the Botafumeiro in the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral at the completion of your Camino. This one extravagant event is a crystallisation of endeavour. Used since the Middle Ages, the 1.5-metre-high botafumeiro is operated by eight "tiraboleiros", who launch it into its precise 65-metre-long, 68 kilometre-an-hour arched trajectory. Used as part of the liturgy, it purifies the air and carries pilgrims' prayers to the heavens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See catedraldesantiago.es</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HORSEBACK SAFARI</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dartmoor Horse Riding Holiday, UK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Liberty Trails offers multi-day horseback adventures in Dartmoor National Park, England's largest and least inhabited natural wilderness. Aimed at experienced riders, the tours explore the park's brooding valleys, marshy peat bogs and exposed granite hilltops. Accommodation options range from the atmospheric Arundell Arms, a 300-year-old coaching inn, to Bovey Castle, a stunning Grade II listed Jacobean mansion. Other activities available include fly-fishing, falconry and hiking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See liberty-trails.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST GEOTHERMAL HIKE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Laugavegur, Iceland</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bright green moss grows in the black volcanic soil, fumaroles expel steam into the cold mountain air, thermal creeks staining the earth white and orange disappear under snow fields. Temperature, colour and texture - at ground level and subterranean - change with every step of the Laugavegur. A guided five-day or seven-day trek of the trail with hut accommodation is the warmest of introductions to this Nordic land of fire and ice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See utracks.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST NEW EUROPEAN ROAD TRIP ROUTE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Grand Tour, Switzerland</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is top-class old-school so crank the music or get into deep conversation without fear of GPS interruption as you follow the brown, white and red signs for a 1600-kilometre scenic loop. The carefully plotted route takes in everything you'd want in a multiday road trip of this landlocked beauty from wiggly lakeside roads, mountain passes and historic tunnels to famous cities, town squares and hilltop villages with longstanding reputations for cheese.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See myswitzerland.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 1200km stretch is not a highway as you know it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MISCELLANEOUS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST STARGAZING</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SkyScape, Twizel, New Zealand's South Island</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Made almost entirely of glass and concealed by native scrub, the phenomenal new SkyScape on a working farm in Twizel on New Zealand's South Island offers the ultimate in celestial viewing. By day take a farm tour with owner Bevan and his working dogs to the property's highest point overlooking the snow capped Ben Ohau Range. By night pour yourself an alfresco bath and a glass of wine and settle in to watch as the full magnificence of the international dark sky reserve is revealed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See skyscape.co.nz</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST POLITICAL TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This edgy establishment in the West Bank city of Bethlehem is known for being one of the world's great art hotels, created in collaboration with street artist Banksy. But it also runs a fascinating tour, led by local Palestinians, that takes travellers along a portion of the 800-kilometre separation wall, and to the nearby Aida <b>Refugee</b> Camp, which has existed for a shocking 70 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See walledoffhotel.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST FEEL-GOOD TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Outrigger Resort Fiji</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is unclear who gets more out of the Outrigger Fiji's outreach program to a remote Fijian school - guests or students. That is what makes it so special. Happy, barefoot school children greet guests with harmonious singing and infectious smiles. Guests can choose to help by building fences, digging trenches, doing maintenance work including painting or delivering donations of books and stationery. The reward is a sense of achievement and the gratitude that comes from staff and students at Conua School.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See outrigger.com/fiji</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST HOT TUBS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Omarama Hot Tubs, New Zealand</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Arrive just on dusk to experience both pastel skies and the soothing glacier-fed, wood-fired hot springs at Omarama Hot Tubs on New Zealand's South Island. A small lever cools things down if it get too steamy while you kick back and enjoy this charming, and oh so private, alpine experience. Along the Alps2Ocean trail, the hot tubs are even more enjoyable after a day of skiing, hiking or cycling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See hottubsomarama.co.nz</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST SCOOTER TOUR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">XO Tours, Vietnam</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Experience the wonders of Saigon or Hoi An on a thrilling scooter tour run by an entirely female fleet of drivers who know their cities inside out. The tours have a range of themes, from shopping and food to sightseeing or nightlife, though it is also possible to arrange bespoke options should you really want to get beneath the surface of the city's culture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See xotours.vn</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST THEME PARK RIDE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Avatar, Flight of Passage Disney World, US</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Disney World's latest attraction is a long way from the days of the teacup ride. Combining state-of-the-art 3D cinema technology with cutting-edge robotics, guests will literarily feel as though they are riding through the magical world of Pandora on the back of a flying banshee. Not only is the ride itself an absolute mind bender, but the crew at <span class="companylink">Disney</span> have created an entire Na'vi world around the attractions to help foster a fully immersive experience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See disneyworld.disney.go.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BEST DESTINATION FOR SOUVENIRS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fez, Morocco</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The world's oldest "old city", Fez's medina is an Aladdin's labyrinth of earthen canyons brimming with handmade souvenirs impossible to resist - leather bags, silk scarves, Berber carpets, silver jewellery, clay tagines - as well as spices and argan oil. "If people want something handmade, they come to Fez," said our local guide, "even from Marrakesh." Don't even try to leave empty-handed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">See intrepidtravel.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is unclear who gets more out of the program - guests or students.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Australia is hurting children to make a point</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>David Isaacs is clinical professor at the University of Sydney and a consultant paediatrician. Alanna Maycock is a paediatric clinical nurse consultant </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>586 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detention is getting longer for a reason,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detention is getting longer for a reason, write David Isaacs and Alanna Maycock.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When we visited Nauru as paediatric specialists three years ago, we were asked to see 30 of the 100 children being detained on the island. Among them was a six-year-old girl who had tried to kill herself and a two-year-old boy with such severe behaviour problems a doctor had prescribed anti-psychotic medicines. Their parents were in despair. They had fled persecution to save their children from harm, but had ended up imprisoned on a remote island, without hope. We left with the view these were the most traumatised children we had ever consulted on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three years later, 43 of those children remain on the island. Officially they can now move around, but reports of attacks show Nauru is not safe and they remain in the detention centre. In 2014, the <span class="companylink">Australian Human Rights Commission</span> reported children at this centre were deeply traumatised and had been abused. Their detention was harming them. When Australia introduced mandatory detention in 1992, it took 10 weeks on average to process an application for <b>refugee</b> status. Now it takes years. As the numbers of children in detention fall, the length of time in detention rises. This is deliberate: wilfully damaging children's health to deter others from seeking <b>asylum</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 90 per cent of people who arrive by <b>boat</b> seeking <b>asylum</b> are classed as "genuine refugees". The United Nations <b>Refugee</b> Convention says countries shall not punish people for seeking <b>asylum</b>, and should never return refugees to their country of origin. We signed that convention. So if those families on Nauru are not coming to Australia and not going home, what will happen to them?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has forgotten those 43 children on Nauru whom we saw three years ago. They are hidden out of sight. The media struggles to report on them because the Nauru government charges a journalist $8000 to apply for a visa, which can be refused without right of appeal, no money back. When Alanna talked about Nauru at The Women in the World summit in New York in April, the Americans were shocked: "Not even Donald locks up children indefinitely."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are specialists in children's health. We know the evidence that immigration detention damages mental health. We know the longer you detain people, the worse the effect: 95 per cent of children who were assessed when in prolonged detention at Wickham Point in Darwin met the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, with sleep disturbance, anxiety, bed-wetting and self-harm. We know some of these children will get better, but only if they are released.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For those still on Nauru, we are told efforts are being made to find a place for them but that families may be split up, even though we know children separated from their families do worse than those who can live with supportive parents. That is not good enough. We are appalled our country punishes children because their parents dared flee persecution. If those children are left with permanent mental health problems, it should be on our conscience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">David Isaacs is clinical professor at the University of Sydney and a consultant paediatrician. Alanna Maycock is a paediatric clinical nurse consultant.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>THE LAST WORD</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>WITH MARTY SMITH </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>552 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MOUTHING OFF (1) Laughter is the best medicine: To bring down unemployment, Eddie McGuire should give up half his jobs. (2) It’s that time of the year: You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger. (3) Newspaper headline: “Cops quiz victim in fatal shooting”. (4) In the Twittersphere: “Life is only a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see.” - English actor Stephanie Davis. (5) I am not making this up: Moving each letter of the word “yes” 16 places further up the alphabet produces the word “oui” (French for “yes”).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">INSIGHT “It’s not a beer gut. It’s a fuel tank for a love machine.” - T-shirt message. QUOTE, UNQUOTE “Adventure is just bad planning.” - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. KEEPING COUNT 7859 — the total number of <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> in 1996 (660), 1997 (339), 1998 (200), 1999 (3721) and 2000 (2939).</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JUST A THOUGHT A coward is someone who cuts up spaghetti.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REMEMBER WHEN Today is December 12, Croatian Air Force Day and the 346th day of the year. There are 19 days remaining until the end of the year. On this day: 1863: Artist Edvard Munch, who smoked and drank too much, was born in Norway. 1885: Adelaide Arcade was officially opened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1915: Singer-actor Frank Sinatra, who died in 1998, was born in Hoboken, New Jersey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1925: The world’s first motel opened in San Luis Obispo, California. 1929: English playwright John Osborne, whose mother used to wash his pocket money in Dettol and hot water to kill any germs, was born in the Fulham district of London.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1951: From Adelaide’s afternoon newspaper The News: “Adelaide Town Clerk (Mr Veale) today declined to comment on the claim by (South Australian surgeon) Sir Henry Newland that trees in the parklands were being damaged by burning off. Sir Henry Newland said among other things that lush grass in the northern parklands had been mown, but then burned, with subsequent damage to the foliage of Moreton Bay fig trees and white cedars in the vicinity.” 1961: In Kindergarten Playtime, on ABC-TV, Joan Gray introduced a puppet story about a doll who had no other toys with which to play.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1968: Actor Tallulah Bankhead, who once said “I never eat on an empty stomach”, died, aged 66, in New York City.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1982: Reviewing the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in the London newspaper The Observer, critic Philip French wrote: “What prevents the movie becoming religiose or mawkish is the detail, good humour and invention that (director Steven) Spielberg and his screenwriter, Melissa Mathison, bring to the telling of the tale and the affectionate creation of this corner of Middle America.” 1987: English singer-songwriter-musician Elvis Costello performed at the Thebarton Theatre, Henley Beach Rd, Torrensville.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1991: Radio station SAFM listed Black or White, by US singer-songwriter Michael Jackson, as Adelaide’s No 1 hit single.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2016: From the front page of The Advertiser (by Michael McGuire): “South Australia’s energy network needs a billion-dollar upgrade to build a second interconnector, or it will become increasingly unreliable as more renewable energy is fed into the grid.”2016: US television personality Larry King tweeted: “Bing Crosby is still the voice of Christmas.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>adelai : Adelaide | saustr : South Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020171211edcc0001t</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020171208edc90000t" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Review</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Children at the heart of stirring narratives</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gretchen Shirm </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1271 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Best Australian Stories 2017 Edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke Black Inc, 179pp, $29.99</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Best Australian Essays 2017 Edited by Anna Goldsworthy Black Inc, 318pp, $29.99</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children are the focus of Maxine Beneba Clarke’s choices in The Best Australian Stories 2017: children who disappear, children who are taken, children who never were. This theme unites the anthology so the stories speak softly to each other like whispers passed along a line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Tony Birch’s opening story, Sissy, an Aboriginal girl named Sissy has been ominously selected for a “holiday” with one of the “more fortunate Catholic families” in the diocese. Birch expertly subverts our fears for Sissy, who lives in poverty, and ends the story with the observation that in storytelling it’s “better to concentrate on the best part”. Though Sissy proves resilient, Birch reminds us how differently this narrative might have unfolded in the real world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, Melissa Lucashenko’s masterful Dreamers shows us an alternative scenario. It begins in 1969 with a woman asking for an axe and the shopkeeper’s observation that “Nothing good could come of any Abo girl holding an axe”. The story then slips back 25 years, when Jean goes to work for a couple and is initially put off by the woman’s pregnant stomach. We realise Jean has lost a child of her own. It’s a powerful and poignant story in which the personal unfolds into a larger, shameful history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Jennifer Mills’s Miracles, children have been disappearing and returning as adults, unable to speak about their disappearance. While initially baffled, parents eventually discover unexpected perks in this eerie story about parental authority. Josephine Rowe also examines the power of buried family secrets in her beautifully paced Glisk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Beejay Silcox’s Slut Trouble, adolescent girls go missing, starting with 19-year-old Julie-Anne, whose hair is “near-black with a wink of red where the sun hits it”. As two girls sleep in a tent overnight they take turns at playing the missing girls and, in a chilling twist, have absorbed the subtext of sexual violence used to describe the girls, acting it out on each other.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Help Me Harden My Heart, Dominic Amerena’s extraordinary story, is about the parents of a young man who leaves for Syria after becoming radicalised. His mother recalls the sensitive boy he once was, “as if he was missing a layer of skin”. When videos of him are shown on news, local vigilantes act their anger out on the parents as the story builds to a blistering climax.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mirandi Riwoe’s slight but emotionally resonant Growth is about an unformed twin “about the size of an apricot”, located in a child’s stomach. Numb is Myfanwy McDonald’s story is narrated by a young girl who feels things intensely but, like her father, has difficulty expressing herself: “I dream sometimes that my tongue has been cut out of my mouth. Like an oyster shucked from its shell.” Julie Koh’s playful The Wall is about a wall designed to “keep the Chinese out” built overnight through the living room of a woman who decides it will “work well as a vision board”. In Joshua Mostafa’s darkly dystopian The <b>Boat</b>, middle-class Australians find themselves seeking refuge inside the windowless hull of a <b>boat</b>. They don’t fare well. Ryan O’Neill, a writer capable of converting just about anything into short story form, turns the fictional obituary of a Liberal Party politician into a satirical romp in Polly Stepford (1932-1997).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beneba Clarke has selected stories that show us unsettling truths about our culture and history, focused on individuals and on Australia. Yet the presence of children alters the overall dynamic: because of a child’s capacity for change and growth, wherever there are children there will always be hope.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Best Australian Essays of 2017, edited by Anna Goldsworthy, is full of facts that seem almost paralysing in their significance. Stan Grant’s observation that indigenous Australians are proportionally “the most incarcerated people on the planet” is one example. In essay form, though, facts are contextualised and acted on by the writer in a way that can make them seem powerful.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Harriet Riley’s essay Endlings, we learn that the title term was coined to “refer to an animal that is the last of its species” and we use this linguistic invention because “we do not see them as real”. Riley’s essay draws a parallel between personal grief and our inaction in the face of climate catastrophe, showing us that language truly matters in shaping our response.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Tamarind is Always Sour by Keane Shum gives us an incredible sense of the unique plight of Rohingya <b>asylum</b>-seekers, but also “how medieval, even ancient, it all seems”. The factors contributing to the flight of the Rohingya from Myanmar are more complex than systematic violence, and include abduction and forced marriages. The story of one 15-year-old girl provides his essay with its devastating human face.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Richard Cooke’s Bonfire of the Narratives, written before last year’s US presidential elections, remains incisive in the aftermath. Trump voters “have decided the system is a circus, so they are sending in a clown”. Killing Our Media, by Nick Feik, considers the impact of <span class="companylink">Google</span> and <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> and suggests the economic model for news requires a radical rethink if meaningful journalism is to survive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People Power at the Ponderosa is Mandy Sayer’s account of a thriving community in a Department of Housing building in inner-Sydney Darlinghurst. Though residents are without family networks and living in deplorable conditions, they have nonetheless found novel ways of supporting themselves: ­establishing a barter system, raiding expensive restaurants for toilet paper and using a ­loyalty card from clothing chain Lowes to “get a whole new wardrobe for seventy bucks!” Resilience is also the theme of Micheline Lee’s The Art of Dependency. Lee, who suffers from a degenerative motor neurone disease, recounts an experience as a law student when a fellow student let out an “annoyed huff” while acceding to Lee’s request to push her wheelchair back to her residential college. It’s an anecdote that parallels the ludicrous way Lee is treated by the healthcare bureaucracy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Melissa Howard recounts her experience at the Family Violence division of the Victorian Magistrates Court in Now No-One Here is Alone, exploring beautifully the contradictions within a system intended to protect women, as well as the internal conflict within women who tolerate violence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sonya Hartnett’s essay about uncovering her rescue dog’s past is replete with novelistic detail, such as “stones popping away from the tyres”. Lech Blaine’s The Bystander, about a horrific car accident, is also written with that capacity to slow action down usually found only in fiction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among the criticism essays, Anwen Crawford’s Towards Joy is a standout. She uses Bob Dylan, Lady Gaga and Prince to show that evaluating pop music by reference only to lyrics is reductive. Her idea about Prince seems to capture it best: “It was the way he sang it.” Goldsworthy has tapped a nerve: the system is broken. The stories are about people who defy or rally against it. A highlight comes from Lee, who tried to thank a Kenyan man who physically assisted her while travelling. “I help you because you need help,” he said. You can’t help but think this generous attitude would improve lives everywhere.Gretchen Shirm is a novelist and critic.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Irish Magnum photographer Richard Mosse sees the world through a very different lens, writes Shirley Apthorp</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is bitterly cold in Berlin and there are no signs to help visitors find their way around an abandoned factory complex. But there is a sound: strange, deep, sinister. It comes from a distant set of industrial doors. ­Inside, pools of icy water dot the concrete floor; an enormous, ancient machine wheezes dry heat but it has little impact on the temperature.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In this unlikely setting, three enormous screens show videos in black-and-white. Refug­ees piled atop a truck; an overcrowded <b>boat</b> at sea; a child handed up a steel ladder to rescuers; a man bent in private prayer behind heavy mach­inery. Sounds from distant worlds — omin­ous, seductive, poetic, violent — merge and clash in the cavernous space. The images, with eerie shifting of negative to positive, are made with heat-sensitive infra-red technology. We see the path of blood vessels, the pool of warmth at the base of a boy’s spine, the passage of a human breath.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Richard Mosse’s Incoming is being set up for a private viewing in this unlikely warehouse, just two days after the opening of his exhibition The Castle at the more conventional Carlier Gebaue­r gallery on the other side of town.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two bodies of work could not be more different. The Incoming video installation feels like a punch to the solar plexus, breathtaking in the most literal sense. It is visceral, intimate, shocking and distressingly beautiful. There are moments that make you cry out aloud; indifference is impossible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Castle is a collection of huge stills, clinic­al in their observation of landscapes, a sniper’s perspective of <b>refugee</b> camps in Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Lebanon. The images are bewildering in their vast complexity, puzzles that also reveal unexpected details of humanity — a child reaching down, young men walking, a stray dog. Each is made up of hundreds of indiv­idual images taken with a military-grade ­camera, a piece of equipment capable of picking up humans at a distance of 30km, so specific in its usefulness for combat and border control purposes that it is classified under the Inter­national Traffic in Arms Regulations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, both exhibitions were made using the same camera, in a journey that took the Irish photographer and his Australian composer friend Ben Frost across three continents and 16 countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They all represent aspects of the <b>refugee</b> crisi­s,” explains Mosse. “The Castle is about where the architecture engages with the surroundi­ng physical landscape, about a provisiona­l architecture that is designed to be dismantled and therefore ­forgotten. These places­ exist in the margins ­between our First World infrastructure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Incoming is about the journeys. We intercepted two of the busiest and most perilous routes into Europe from the Middle East and from Africa.” Incoming will serve as a centrepiece at the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span>’s Triennial, featuring more than 100 artists from 32 countries, which opens on Thursday. The photographer is no stranger to the NGV. The sombre greys of both works are a surprise after The Enclave, the aston­ishing work with which Mosse captured international attention four years ago and which was acquired by the Melbourne instit­ution in 2015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These images of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo were shot with a discontinued line of chlorophyll-sensitive <span class="companylink">Kodak</span> film, developed during World War II as a way of differentiating soldiers in camouflage from the surrounding vegetation. The resulting images show vege­tation and landscape in arresting shades of pink and vermilion, riotously beautiful, in stark contrast with the violence implied by the soldiers and war lords Mosse portrayed. “I feel that beauty is a powerful tool of communication,” says Mosse. We have retreated to a back room where a tiny plastic fan heater provides far too little warmth to keep us comfortable; we crouch over it, perched on a beer-hall bench, as we talk. It cannot be half as bizarre as most of the places Mosse has worked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This work does have its testimonial. It’s about communicating narratives to people so that they are aware of what’s happening. Because­ I think it’s important. And after all, I am a storyteller.” The story of how Mosse ended up in eastern Congo is one worth telling. “I had just come back from Iraq at that stage, where I’d been working to document Saddam Hussein’s palace­s,” he recalls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Before that, I’d been working in Syria, ­Israel, Palestine and Gaza. And I cut my teeth in the Balkans, where I did an extended­ project in my early 20s on the missing persons crisis, which is an abstraction, really; you can’t put a missing person in front of a ­camera. That’s the problem with documentary photography, it’s so concrete. I became interested in portraying something that you could not put in front of the lens, and it’s a thread that has run through a lot of my work since then.” He began with a standard <span class="companylink">Nikon</span> camera but soon found himself frustrated. “It was just, you know, portraits of mourning mothers. It wasn’t telling the story adequately.” He began looking at the work of more experimental art photographers — Israeli Ori Gersht, whose work examines violence, death and beauty, and Thomas Struth, the German photo­grapher whose work analyses landscapes and cities. He read WG Sebald’s elaborate literary explorations of trauma, loss and memory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I realised there are other ways of digging into these conflicts,” Mosse says. “The Balkans, in particular, are hideously complicated. It tends to be. That’s why people fight. Because they can’t bloody work it out.” Mosse sold his <span class="companylink">Nikon</span> and bought a large-­format Linhof from the 1950s — “a beast of a thing”. It was the beginning of a path towards inconvenient tools that would lead to the incongruity of travelling the world with 80kg of classified military equipment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His creative leaps always began with the mediu­m, he says, which suggested a subject. “Some 5.4 million people in the eastern Congo have died since 1998, yet we don’t hear much about it in the media. And it’s ongoing; huge numbers of people are starving to death in Kasai. This is the point of failure of documentary photography that I wish to explore. It’s about the unseen, the overlooked; on some level this is a hidden humanitarian dis­aster. And the film reveals the invisible spectrum of light called infra-red.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I feel a real moral imperative to engage with these narratives and to try to tell them better, simply for myself, to understand them. There is no evangelism in my work. If I have any skills, it’s about getting access. It’s hard to get a camera­ to the right place at the right time, to convey a story in the right way.” It is partly the complexity of the eastern Congolese conflict, so much less clearly defined than that of Sudan, which drew Mosse’s atten­tion. “You have 50 different armed groups spread out over a vast region, and they’re all bad guys. The <span class="companylink">UN</span> is involved, spending huge amounts of money, but they’re very ineffective, and they’re part of the problem.” Mosse gives a quick dissection of the warring Congolese national army, the Mai-Mai rebels, the Rwandan fighters, and the valuable mineral­s that may provide an incentive for the West to leave the conflicts unresolved. “If you had strong leadership in the Congo, they would of course sell the minerals for more, which we wouldn’t like.” For two years Mosse and his associates travelled through dense Congolese jungle, meeting war lords, hearing tales of genocide, assassination, rape and extortion. Does he have nightmares? “Sometimes. As much as the next man.” But as an atheist who comes from a Quaker family and was accepted as a Quaker and tries to live by their principles, Mosse consider­s himsel­f an artist with a mission. “I do believe that art can change the world. And I have a great belief in what I do, otherwise I wouldn’t do it. I hope to create changes of consciousness, rather than necessarily conscience.” Incoming is as broad in its geographical reach as The Enclave was narrow, tracking a global crisis­ through deserts, over oceans, across contin­ents. Each journey requires special permits­ and permissions, quite apart from the physical feat of carting heavy equipment through conflict zones. Mosse says that he is profoundly grateful to the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span>, London’s Barbican Centre and an anonymous private donor for the commissioning support that made the work possible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s also funded by additional print sales from my last project, and my gallery has helped, as well. As many artists do, I tend to just fold anything I earn back into my work.” Mosse is a Magnum photographer, a member­ of the international photographic collec­tive of practitioners founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson; but there is no hint of elitism in his manner. His conversational intensity is broken­ up by frequent profanities and gales of laughter. He has a boy-next-door matter-of-factness that makes it hard to imagine him in the extreme situations in which his work has placed him. Or perhaps that is precisely what makes it possible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So far he has been imprisoned only once, for one night, “by some very aggressiv­e right-wing fascist police on the Greek island of Chios. That happens to photo­graphers. It’s not unusual.” The imperative of showing work about refug­ees in Australia is one Mosse feels very strongly. “Australia is one of the very few countries that close their borders to refugees, which is, in my opinion, a human rights ­violation. And that is a very deeply worrying ­erosion. Human rights are part of international law, enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. If we don’t uphold those, we are messing with our own human rights, ultimately, because we are all potential refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There’s also the problem of opportunistic politicians instrumentalising the figure of the <b>refugee</b> for the purpose of fearmongering. A <b>refugee</b> can be used as a trigger to suspend our civic rights and to create emergency laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That can be used to change the system and to slide our liberal democracy towards totalit­arianism. And if we’re not careful, that will happen­ rather quickly. It’s something we have to be extremely aware of. Certainly in Europe as well — in Germany­ with the AfD [right-wing Alternative for Germany party], but also, more worryingly, in Austria and places like Hungary. It’s terrifying.” Just as his work shifts from sweeping landscapes to close, private moments, so Mosse can pivot his conversation from the general to the specific in an instant. The heat-sensing skills of his camera allowed for painfully explicit filming of hypothermia as refugees were fished from the Aegean Sea when his team witnessed an overloaded <b>boat</b> sinking. In one excruciating sequence­, Frost’s soundtrack allows us to hear with merciless clarity as emergency medical officer­s discuss the intubation of a young girl in real time, while Mosse’s images, slowed down to a dreamlike gentleness, show the volunteers frantically rubbing the small, cold body. “She was four or five. They were out on the pier in the middle of the night. It was totally dark, but the camera can see. They are literally trying to rub life-giving warmth back into her hypothermic body.” The camera reveals two coal-black handprints as the doctor’s warm flesh leaves the child’s cold body; it is one of the film’s most haunting images. “She was revived. But she died the next day of what they call secondary drowning. There were 300 people on that <b>boat</b> and 80 people died that night.” In another scene, Mosse shows an autopsy where, with infinite tenderness, pathologists approach­ the decomposed body of a 10-year-old girl drowned at sea. They find an intact friendship bracelet on the fragile wrist and slice it off for safekeeping. For a stomach-churning stretch, Frost lets us hear the screech of the electric saw as they remove a fragment of bone from a femur for DNA sampling. Sound and image work together to devastating effect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That DNA will be put into a database, and then people wherever she was from, Kurdistan or Syria or Iraq or wherever, will be able to give a quick swab of blood from the thumb, and the computer will make a match. So hopefully these bodies can be repatriated for burial, which is of immense importance for the family.” How does he process the trauma of the things he has seen?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“After the Congo, I thought: ‘What the hell is happening to me?’ I couldn’t sleep for weeks. So I googled my symptoms, and <span class="companylink">Google</span> took me to the <span class="companylink">US Army</span> site, and I was, like, oh, feck, that’s what I have! It said that the only proven cures for PTSD are church and family. Church and family! And I thought: ‘Well, now I’m done for.’ Because I don’t believe in church and I don’t reall­y have a family at all. I don’t even have a dog. But I do have a very close network of collaborat­ors and I have a group of very strong, close friends. And that helps.” In the end, says Mosse, what gets him through the dark nights is his belief in the value of what he is doing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There’s a dilemma in photographing refugees. Because many of them don’t want to be identified. So do you not photograph these peopl­e, disavow what is happening, sweep it under the carpet? Or do you tell the story in a way that doesn’t allow them to be identified? This is my attempt to resolve that dilemma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The work is designed to confront people about the ways in which our governments, and therefore our societies, regard the figure of the <b>refugee</b>. That’s why I’m taking a military camera­ that is really an aspect of the military humanitarian complex. It’s about how inadequately we have responded to this crisis; how instead of actually helping people, we’ve created systems of control.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are many other types of new technol­ogy being used on refugees experimentally, such as biometric identification cards. The <b>refugee</b> camps are wide open in terms of controlling people. This is a way to appropriate that, to take it back and use it against itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So really the most important thing about Incoming­ is to make people feel an uncomfortable sense of their own complicity. Some people get upset; that’s par for the course. Some people love it and others hate it. There aren’t many sittin­g on the fence. So it generated discourse. And that’s what art’s about, eh?”The NGV Triennial opens on Thursday and runs until April 18.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nationals renegade George Christensen has baulked and withdrawn a threat to cross the floor on an amended bill to reverse the cuts to Sunday penalty rates. He then voted with the government to adjourn any further debate until next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The amendments passed the Senate on Monday and Labor was hoping to enlist the support of Mr Christensen to pass it through the lower house this week where the government is currently in minority. It has 73 MPs on the floor and Labor and the crossbench have a combined 74. But independent Cathy McGowan does not support the revocation of penalty rate cuts, making Mr Christensen's support necessary for the bill to pass.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Christensen was one of two Nationals MPs who were prepared to cross the floor to support a private members bill to establish a commission of inquiry into the banks. This forced the government to surrender and agree to a royal commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the weekend, Mr Christensen withdrew a threat to quit the party if Malcolm Turnbull remained leader. Revelations of his plan to bring down Mr Turnbull caused considerable anger with colleagues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Monday, he baulked at crossing the floor on penalty rates, claiming the amended bill did not guard employers from having to backpay workers, even though the author of the amendments, Labor Senator Doug Cameron, said it did, and the legislation makes it clear the changes will be prospective.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I've spoken to Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash and there is confusion over whether or not Labor's amendment would mean small businesses in my electorate . . . would have to give back pay, costing them thousands of dollars," Mr Christensen said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I am not going to act on the say-so of Labor Senator Doug Cameron that it will be in the amendment."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Cameron said Labor used the same amendments as contained in an earlier bill proposed by Mr Christensen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Monday, the Senate passed Labor's amendments to repeal penalty rate cuts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The amendments, attached to a government bill on technical Fair Work Act changes, renders invalid the <span class="companylink">Fair Work Commission</span>'s decision to cut Sunday and public holiday rates in retail, fast-food, hospitality and pharmacy industries and prevents the commission from ever cutting penalty rates again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Employers would also be stopped from cutting penalty rates in enterprise agreements if it means an employee who usually worked days where penalty rates were payable was disproportionately affected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the government dodged a bullet on penalty rates, it embarrassed itself when two MPs - Steve Ciobo and Warren Entsch - failed to show up for a vote on a non-binding motion calling on the government to take up New Zealand's offer to accept 150 <b>asylum</b> seekers languishing on Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government lost the vote by 73 votes to 72 but won it 74/73 after the two errant MPs showed up and there was another vote taken. Still, it was a major embarrassment given the government knew it was in minority and was to be tested on both penalty rates and <b>boat</b> people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government is in minority because Barnaby Joyce and John Alexander were dual citizens and had to fight byelections. Mr Joyce won his seat on the weekend but the result has not been declared yet, so he cannot yet re-enter <span class="companylink">Parliament</span>. There is a slight chance he will be back later this week.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GALIA Bastoni knows what it’s like to arrive in a foreign country as a <b>refugee</b> and start a new life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 22-year-old North Hobart woman has lived in Tasmania for about five years, after she and her family fled Syria.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bastoni said she knew some English when she arrived but found life difficult at first.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I knew some English but because of the lack of support I had ... my first two years were very difficult,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s an experience Ms Bastoni does not want other migrants to go through and her work helping new arrivals, particularly those from Arabic-speaking backgrounds, has been recognised at this year’s Tasmanian Human Rights Awards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bastoni won the Youth Award at yesterday’s awards ceremony at Parliament House in Hobart.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bastoni works at the Red Cross and volunteers with the Migrant Resource Centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her work now includes helping run information sessions on health and other topics for migrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She said she would also like to establish an Arabic school, for Arabic speakers but also for those who want to learn Arabic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt said more than 30 nominations for individual and organisation awards were received again this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Each and every one of them has made a significant contribution to the promotion of diversity and the recognition of human rights,” Ms Bolt said.Winners — Individual award: LGBTI advocate Tracey Wing. Organisation: Advocacy service for people with intellectual disability Speak Out Association Tasmania. School: MacKillop Catholic College for its relationship with students and communities in East Timor, and the integration of human rights and social justice in the school’s curriculum. LGBTIQ: North-West LGBTIQ advocate Annie Whitehead. Print journalism: Piia Wirsu. Multicultural: Intercultural Sports League. Sport: North Esk Rowing Club in association with Dragons Abreast Northern Tasmania and the North Esk Dragon <b>Boat</b> Club, for providing an inclusive environment for all athletes.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Binds that tie us</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ED WRIGHT, AUSTRALIAN FICTION </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1378 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 December 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">READING THROUGH THE COLLECTION, THERE'S A GROWING FEELING THESE STORIES BEGAN AS QUESTIONS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The attitude towards and treatment of Aborig­inal Australia is a moral bind that white Australia finds particularly difficult. We like to imagine ourselves as good people and that our nation is built on the struggle for good. The fact there was a thriving culture in existence for 65,000 years before our arrival, which has struggled in the two centuries since, is something we find hard to overcome.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This guilt is mainly dealt with by avoidance. In his famous Redfern speech, Paul Keating talked about the necessity of imagination and empathy to help heal some of the wounds inflicte­d on Aboriginal Australia. Yet our avoidance is utilitarian and our empathy too frequently abstracted into totemic (and token­istic) displays.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Real empathy, especially that which troubles the morals of our origins, is messy. Sometimes we need to be tricked into the kind of imagination that Keating agitated for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Claire Coleman’s Terra Nullius (Hachette, 296pp, $29.99) is a clever speculative novel that merges history with science fiction to build an empathy trap. Coleman, who hails from the south coast of Western Australia and identifies with the Noongar people, was the winner of the 2016 Black & Write Fellowship, a project run by the State Library of Queensland. This is her debut novel and it’s a bold one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the outset, Terra Nullius feels like a historical fiction. A young boy, Jacky, has run away from the mission where he is being trained to become a domestic servant. The leader of the mission, Sister Bagra, is furious, yet also concerned that the escape will cast a light on her appalling treatment of her charges.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, the head of the Department for the Protection of Natives, known as Devil, is also keen to retrieve Jacky and to assert his conviction, no matter the evidence to the contrary, that the natives are inferior beings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sergeant Rohan is ordered to track down Jacky, a task he resents for its futility, danger and discomfort. Another trooper, Johnny Star, has a crisis of conscience following his part in a massacre of the natives and begins to militate against his own kind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All the elements of our history are there: the thieving of children from their parents; the cruel reductionism of the homes for the stolen children; settlers struggling against the climate; the moral vileness of the authorities; massacres of natives by settlers. Coleman has provided us with a kind of pastiche, using actual history but also fictions such as Thomas Keneally’s The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and Doris Pilkington Garimara’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This pastiche, clever in itself, has an even greater impact once the reader realises the story is set in the future, and that the troopers, nuns and petty tyrants of the settlers are aliens whose closest resemblance is to the salamander. As amphibians, they loathe the dry climate of the Australian outback, which is why skerricks of humankind, otherwise unable to counter the aliens’ superior weaponry, still manage to survive there freely.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s a genre fusion of historical and speculative fiction that makes a powerful allegorical point. A similar blending of these elements can be found in Jane Rawson’s Beyond the Wreck, but Coleman uses the strategy in an Orwellian fashion for an overt political purpose. Terra Nullius is witty, weird, moving and original. Its imaginative displacement of the terrible injustices in our history forces us to consider what it might be like to be a victim.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dancing Home (UQP, 216pp, $29.99) is the debut novel of Paul Collis, who won the David Unaipon Award for an unpublished indigenous writer with the manuscript. Collis is a Barkindji man from the Darling River town of Bourke in far-western NSW. He teaches creative writing at the <span class="companylink">University of Canberra</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is another kind of Aboriginal novel entirel­y. Collis also plays with the tropes of our settler mythology. In this case it’s the Ned Kelly myth, the story of a good man turned bad by the brutality and venality of the authorities, which Collis puts in a contemporary context.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Blackie is a hard man with a heart of gold who has just been released from jail after being stitched up by a local cop. With his system full of speed, he takes a road trip back towards his country in Bourke in a stolen car with a jail mate, Rips, and driver, Carlos. Revenge against the cop is on his mind. It’s a grudge that has been played out since the black man showed up the white man playing footy when they were teenagers Their road trip continues in a blur of doing drugs and dodging the cops until they arrive in Dubbo, where Blackie has family. The promised reunion goes a bit pear-shaped, however. Blackie ends up in a fight with a tough man from the Wellington mob and, although he beats him in the fight, he is severely beaten by the rest of the crowd as a consequence. Combined with the speed, the effect of the beating is not good for his kidneys. Meanwhile, the cops are up to dirty tricks to put Blackie under pressure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a story of heroic failure, like Ned Kelly, Breaker Morant, the Eureka Stockade and Gallipoli. Blackie’s only option is to choose the kind of defeat he must endure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His predicament makes you wonder why the affinity in the national mythology for heroic failure has avoided the incorporation of Aboriginal stories, the section of our population that has more stories of heroic failure than anyone else. Collis writes with knowledge and edge, and at times this is an uncomfortable read.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark (UWAP, 228pp, $24.99) is the first collection of short stories from novelist and creative writing academic Catherine Cole.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are 22 stories here and, while the book may have benefited from one or two being culled, Cole shows considerable finesse with her language and use of fiction as an intellectual tool for grappling with the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The prose is cool, thinking rather than feeling, with a quality of social inquiry. Reading through the collection, there’s a growing feeling these stories began as questions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many are set in Sydney, a city that is fragmented culturally and geographically. The third story, Home, for example, follows Iraqi <b>refugee</b> Ahmed, who finds solace among the dead in Rookwood Cemetry as he waits for his daughter, his sole surviving relative, to be smuggled into Australia from Indonesia via <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of the stories stand on their own, but the sense of aggregation is helped by one series of interlinked stories that centre on a poet, Eliza­beth, who lives in the fictional island of Beeni on the outskirts of Sydney, and her trou­bled brother Dan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In The Fret, Dan visits her, but then hits the road to go fruit-picking. We meet Dan again in Hell Comes, Hell Goes, picking peaches in the Riverina, mentally ill and racially abusing an immigrant worker whose name also happens to be Ahmed, or Axmed as Dan pronounces it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The final story, Plenty, is an account of a lunch at the Sydney Harbour home of Elizabeth’s friend Phoebe. The guests feast on prawns, wine, French cheese and artisan chocolates. Elizabeth is attacked by one of them when she erroneously informs her friends about how her brother is learning about <b>asylum</b>-seekers while he picks fruit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are other themes at work in the collection. Perhaps the standout story is Going to Visit Dad, which plays out a troubled mother-son relationship around access to the demented husband and father.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s surprising and poignant, and follows the clever Forever Restarting, in which Charles Arrowb­y, the self-regarding narrator of Iris Murdoch’s novel The Sea, The Sea, emerges from the book and imagines a revenge on Murdoch that is cruelled by her slide into dementia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Collectively, Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark asks intriguing questions about the veneer­s of our civility, their pretensions, yet also the extensive ways in which they can be eroded.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Counter-terrorism measures fuelling racism, warns UN group</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick Miller | Europe correspondent </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>458 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hate speech and counter-terrorism measures may be fuelling a general rise in racism, xenophobia and discrimination in Australia, a <span class="companylink">UN</span> committee says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian government officials were grilled in Geneva yesterday by the <span class="companylink">UN</span>'s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, over a periodic report on our country's progress in tackling racism and disadvantage. It was Australia's first appearance before the committee since 2010.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Verene Shepherd, the committee's rapporteur for Australia, welcomed Australia's progress in adopting an anti-racism strategy, appointing a race discrimination commissioner and bringing in new health and justice programs for indigenous people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However she "voiced concern that hate speech and counter-terrorism measures were fuelling racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and ethnic-based discrimination in the country", according to notes on the meeting released by the committee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Shepherd said the Australian government needed to target the minority of Australians who did not want multiculturalism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane told the committee there were clear indications that racial intolerance and discrimination were "on the rise" in Australia. "It is especially concerning that, as in many other countries, extreme nationalist organisations have grown in prominence within public debates about race and immigration."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another committee expert, Gun Kut, asked what Australia was doing to counter "negative trends" such as "racism in political discourse and targeting of migrants by far-right groups".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adrianne Walters, from Australia's Human Rights Law Centre, was at the hearing in Geneva and said the <span class="companylink">UN</span> committee had made it clear that Australia had considerable work to do to eliminate racism from our institutions, laws and public debate. "The committee was particularly concerned about Australia's increasingly cruel treatment of refugees and people seeking <b>asylum</b>, and demanded to know why the Australian government has not evacuated all the men, women and children on Manus Island and Nauru to safety in Australia," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The committee also homed in on the pace at which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were being drawn into the "quicksand" of child protection and criminal justice systems.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Walters said the Australian government's response to the committee on the <b>asylum</b> issue "was typically obtuse". And she said the committee's frustration with Australia's inadequate responses to questions was clear, with Australia pointedly asked twice about whether it will implement the recommendations of the landmark Northern Territory Royal Commission in the Northern Territory and beyond.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Department of Foreign Affairs first assistant secretary Lachlan Strahan told the committee that "unfortunately, some Australians said repulsive things about racial issues, but the majority rejected such ugly discourse".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian delegation also defended our policy on <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b>.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No <b>boat</b> U-turns in Italy's <b>refugee</b> policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Laura Tingle Political editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>552 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2017. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italy - the country at the frontline of Europe's migration crisis - has rejected the need to adopt a <b>boat</b> turn-back policy and says there has been a sharp fall in arrival numbers in recent months under its policies of co-operation and responsibility sharing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Angelino Alfano is in Australia this week promoting trade and co-operation between the two countries, and has signed a memorandum of understanding with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to establish a new dialogue.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, Mr Alfano said there was ample scope to further develop all aspects of the relationship between the two countries - political, economic, and people-to-people - and expressed Italy's full support for negotiations of the Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement beginning as soon as possible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Unlike populists, we believe in free trade," he said. "Protectionism can never be the right answer, especially for an exporting country like Italy, which can only develop and grow where open markets are possible."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Alfano said terrorism was "an all-pervading disease that is jeopardising the very civil liberties we have become accustomed to".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, he said "the temptation of isolation is ill-fated. The world is more interconnected than ever, not less."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italy had adopted a system to deal with terror which combined "solidarity and security: solidarity, by saving thousands of human lives in the Mediterranean; security, by acting firmly in identifying and fighting extremists and terrorists". Asked about suggestions that Europe should adopt Australia's tough <b>boat</b> turn-back policies, Mr Alfano said "it is true that many politicians, not only in Australia, but also in Europe suggest we adopt a '<b>boat</b> turn-back policy"'.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"However, we believe that a model based on co-operation with countries of transit and responsibility-sharing can be effective".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italy needs to co-operate with African countries of transit and of origin and their authorities, he said and had proposed a co-operation model which encompassed the management of migration flows before they arrived in Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"In particular, it includes the fight against traffickers, the promotion of valuable economic alternatives to the business model based on migration, the strengthening of border control capabilities and of assistance to migrants," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This approach is producing its first, encouraging results, as demonstrated by a sharp reduction in the incoming flows over the last few months (a negative 32 per cent)", he said. "While keeping in mind its goal to control migration flows and investing more resources to support the African countries, Italy is not giving up rescuing people in danger in the Mediterranean Sea. We have done this and we continue to do it to show that it is possible to pursue both principles of solidarity and security."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Alfano said irregular flows to Italy from Libya had plummeted in recent months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Now that flows along the Central Mediterranean route have declined significantly and the <span class="companylink">EU</span> external borders have been secured again, we believe that there might be political room to build consensus on the need for a deep reform of the <span class="companylink">EU</span> <b>asylum</b> policy," he said</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a deep awareness at the <span class="companylink">EU</span> level that migration "is here to stay", the Italian minister added.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bring Manus inmates here, protesters demand</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>157 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DARWINITES have thrown their support behind a national campaign to evacuate refugees from camps on Manus Island and bring them to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, local group DASSAN hosted a demonstration at Nightcliff Markets. Protesters sat together with arms clasped above their heads in a peaceful protest.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Organisers said they sat in solidarity with the refugees on Manus Island. “PNG Authorities have entered the Manus Camp and violently forced the men there to move into unfinished dangerous new detention centres,” a DASSAN spokesman said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We must demand the refugees and people seeking <b>asylum</b> are immediately evacuated from Manus, and brought to safety in Australia.” Across Australia, protesters gathered in iconic locations, calling on the Federal Government to evacuate camps on Manus Island. The prison, set up by Australia to process <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals, was officially closed on October 31.However, the men refused to leave, saying their new accommodation was unsafe.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Our responsibility, our national shame</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The inhumane treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees under the mandatory offshore detention policy of Australian governments - bastardry escalated by the court-ordered closure of the shabby camp on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island - will come to be seen as one of the most shameful sagas in Australian political history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The forceful removal of the men in the Manus Island camp, and the arrest of some, including a journalist who used social media to show the world the heavy-handed intervention, is the latest disgrace in a litany that has sullied our record as a nation that respects human rights. Politicians - well aware they have, through dog-whistling, manipulated fear and misunderstanding in some sections of our community - seek to place an ethical fig leaf over the draconian policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They claim the sole motivation is to prevent people dying at sea, which is a noble aim. But it is insufficient to justify persecuting and harming many innocent children, woman and men. It is wrong to seek to deter desperate <b>asylum</b> seekers elsewhere by cruelly treating desperate <b>asylum</b> seekers for whom Australia is legally and morally responsible and who have done nothing wrong. To be sure, the issue is complex, and people smugglers are despicable opportunists. Were there a ready solution, it would have been deployed long ago. But, as the United Nations, medical experts, community and church leaders, mental-health professionals, teachers, social workers and others argue, mandatory offshore detention coupled with a blanket ban on anyone arriving by <b>boat</b> ever being admitted to Australia is appalling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is required is methodical regional processing, led by Australia. Our on-sea border protection forces should continue their vigilance. The right thing to do is to bring the people on Manus Island and Nauru to Australia, where they can be processed under the deal with the US to take up to 1250 confirmed refugees. Australia should also not seek to stand in the way of PNG accepting New Zealand's long-standing offer to resettle 150 of them. The government has sought to mute witnesses on pain of imprisonment. It made a record compensation payment of $70 million for physical and psychological damage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PNG Supreme Court ruled the centre unconstitutional and in breach of human rights. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says the facility the men have been forced to enter is the same as the one they're being forced to leave despite having well-documented reasons for fearing for their safety in an economically struggling community that does not want them. They are Australia's responsibility - and shame.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GENEVIEVE ALISON </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>338 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PROTESTERS have again brought the CBD to a standstill as hundreds gathered at a weekly immigration rally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police and the Public Order Response team were out in force, blocking the crowd from moving through the Swanston St and Bourke St intersection.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A wall of officers kept protesters at bay after an earlier disturbance at the rally saw a bloodied man arrested.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A man, reportedly a Right-wing protester, stormed up to speakers, grabbed a microphone and called the refugees “rapists”. The comments caused chaos in the crowd and police swooped on the man.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police were unable to confirm how many people had been arrested. Trams throughout the city were halted, as Friday night city-goers were forced to ­bypass the crowd through laneways.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The protesters later made their way down the Bourke St Mall, chanting “free refugees” and “evacuate Manus” as they marched. The protesters have been holding weekly marches against the detention of ­refugees on Manus Island for the past few weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The latest demonstration, which has been the most ­heated, comes as all remaining ­refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers at the mothballed Manus Island centre have been moved out, ending a tense three-week stand-off.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday confirmed about 300 men who had ­refused to leave were now in alternative accommodation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Papua New Guinea police and immigration officers armed with metal batons ­entered the prison yesterday morning to complete the task of clearing it, three weeks after it was officially closed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The prison, set up by Australia to process <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals, was officially closed on October 31. However, the men refused to leave, saying their new accommodation was unsafe and lacked proper health services. Mr Dutton accused people in Australia of making inaccurate and exaggerated claims of violence and injuries on Manus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says only three people suffered “minor” injuries — one an insect bite, another tripped and grazed himself while running from the centre, and a third had dehydration.genevieve.alison@news.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>My arrival at a wretched realisation</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paige Taylor WA bureau chief </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a decade of reporting on <b>boat</b> arrivals I realised I had it all wrong</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was stunned into silence the first time I saw a <b>refugee</b> reach Australian soil; it was a hot Saturday afternoon, February 24, 2007, and I stood with notebook and pen ­behind a waist-high barricade on the Christmas Island jetty.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new arrivals smiled and waved. They carried bottled water and wore baseball caps given to them by young navy crew from HMAS Success, which days earlier had rescued them from their stricken vessel. It seemed astonishing that these 82 Sri Lankan men and one boy had made it ­almost all the way across the deep ocean of the Java Trench in a small wooden <b>boat</b>, and miraculous that they had been plucked to ­safety. I felt proud these victims of civil war had chosen us and that we would help them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I cannot be sure of the moment my heart began to harden. It took a long time but I felt I lost my soul a little bit in the next decade. During 17 assignments to Christmas ­Island, I learned a lot about liars, opportunists and innocent victims while reporting on the more than 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers who reached Australia by <b>boat</b> and the estimated 1200 who died trying.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The idea that an <b>asylum</b>-seeker could be digging for water inside a derelict offshore camp ­established by my own government would have brought me to tears at one time. But I was wary this month when that bleak scenario was acted out. I was mostly ­unmoved by the words of men at the old Manus Island camp who refused to move to the new accommodation built for them. Instead, I wondered immediately if <b>refugee</b> advocates had encouraged these wretched souls to hold out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am now out of step with — among many others — my union, the organisation of journalism professionals I have served as a volunteer since 2000. The <span class="companylink">Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance</span> co-signed a letter to Malcolm Turnbull asking him to bring three Manus Island detainees to Australia: cartoonist “Eaten Fish”, performer Mehdi Savari and journalist Behrouz Boochani. They ended up on Manus because they reached Christmas Island after Kevin Rudd slammed the door on <b>boat</b> arrivals on July 19, 2013. It was already a brutal policy before the Coalition turbo-charged it by putting <b>asylum</b> seekers in orange lifeboats and pointing them towards Indonesia. Genuine refugees such as Boochani missed out on a smooth path to a new life in Australia by a matter of days. They were told on arrival they would be settled in a foreign country and never, ever in Australia. Boochani has responded with defiance, bringing international scrutiny to the plight of the men on Manus through tweets and online reports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My friends — decent, compassionate people — will be surprised and possibly disgusted to know how I feel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I had made wrong assumptions from the beginning. The Sri Lankans I saw taking their first steps on to the Christmas Island jetty in 2007 were rescued by the navy, but only after their ­Indonesian crew sabotaged the <b>boat</b> engine twice. And not everyone on board had sought out Australia as a beacon of humanity — one of the men later told me he had paid to go to New Zealand, which many of his countrymen preferred.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To round out my trifecta of mistaken beliefs during that first wide-eyed attempt at <b>asylum</b>-seeker reporting, it turned out Australia had not wanted to help these men at all. The Howard government tried to send them to Cuba in an elaborate people swap.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 2007 Tamils were the first large group of <b>asylum</b>-seekers to reach Australia in more than a year. They were taken to a detention camp on the island that held just two Vietnamese men, long-time detainees who spent their days outside the centre gardening for the island council or visiting residents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rudd’s landslide victory over John Howard, which I watched on a wall-mounted television at Christmas Island’s open-air pub, the Golden Bosun, on November 24, 2007, changed everything. The island of 1200 permanent residents is a heavily unionised workforce of Labor voters; that night locals told me the boats would come again. They predicted a rush of arrivals like before the Tampa crisis of 2001, which triggered turnbacks and the hated Pacific Solution. I thought they were too cynical. I also thought: “So what? Refugees deserve protection.” The following July, Chris Evans, the immigration minister at the time, unveiled a more compassionate policy on <b>asylum</b>-seekers, saying Labor “rejects the notion that dehumanising and punishing unauthorised arrivals with long-term detention is an ­effective or civilised response”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Desperate people are not ­deterred by the threat of harsh ­detention,” Evans said. “They are often fleeing much worse ­circumstances.” In hindsight, it was as good as giving people-smugglers the double thumbs up. Christmas Island began to fill; by the end of 2008 there had been 161 arrivals, in 2009 there were 2557, largely from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. In 2010 6555 people arrived by <b>boat</b> and even Christmas Island’s $396 million immigration detention centre was full, which meant offshore processing was over. The Howard-era detention centre at Curtin in Western Australia’s remote north was reopened and it eventually held 1400 men. New, reopened or expanded immigration detention facilities were eventually needed in every mainland state.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 17,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers reached Christmas Island in 2012 and now many were Iranians. The final year of the Labor government was chaos: 20,711 people arrived by <b>boat</b>, 7678 of whom were Iranians. Five boats in one day is the most I can recall.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was based in The Australian’s Perth bureau during this extraordinary chapter and I spent many months on Christmas Island documenting the arrivals and listening to the stories of <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Perth was the only Australian city with a commercial service to the tiny Australian territory. The seven-hour flight via Cocos (Keeling) Islands initially ran just twice a week but ramped up to cope with the very big business of detention. Photographer Colin Murty and I were there during three election campaigns, after riots and tragedies at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first fatality I reported on was in April 2009, not long after the <b>boat</b> trade was re-energised; the vessel had been intercepted by the Australian navy when someone on board deliberately set off an explosion, killing five of the 47 <b>asylum</b>-seekers on it. Then a <b>boat</b> that left Indonesia loaded with <b>asylum</b>-seekers disappeared and was never found. Others were found capsized with desperate people clinging to the hull. Some vessels were not sunk by waves, they were just terrible junk that slipped under the sea in calm weather. By July 2013 there were 4000 detainees on the island and the coffins of the drowned were in my nightmares.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In those years the island was overwhelmed, not so much by the <b>asylum</b>-seekers but by the enormous number of public servants who came to detain and process them. There were hundreds of <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span>, Customs officials, detention centre guards, ASIO officers, teachers, case workers, cooks and cleaners. The island’s sewerage system ­failed and began spewing brown liquid on to the pristine reef. Fresh fruits and vegetables were flown in for detainees but they were scarce on the outside — once I saw fresh milk had been airfreighted in and was on sale at the local grocer. I grabbed it before anyone else could and paid $19.95 for two litres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As well as looking for stories, I often spent hours each day trying to find accommodation. Eventually we got to know locals who agreed to rent us their homes when they were on holidays. One woman let us stay in her unfinished and unfurnished house. We were often the only news outlet on the island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I began with deep compassion for everyone I met in detention. Among them was Leela, a 19-year-old Sri Lankan journalist who was detained and beaten by Colombo police after his employer, a radio station, broadcast a speech by an LTTE leader. He was bashed again in detention, including by a professional kickboxer at Sydney’s Villawood, an angry man who was waiting to be deported to New Zealand for violent crimes. Leela and I became friends and talked a lot about food, a neutral topic that kept the conversation away from the twin horrors of life in Sri Lanka and in Australian ­detention. I gave him Stephanie Alexander’s The Cook’s Companion. He is now a chef in Sydney’s Surry Hills and has bought a second-hand <span class="companylink">BMW</span>. He is so happy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A lot has been written about the dire mental health of the men on Manus Island, but people were going mad in the camps on Christmas Island long before anyone was shifted to Papua New Guinea. One detainee dug his own grave and slept in it each night for months. A stateless Kurd nicknamed Spiderman spent an entire month naked in Villawood and threw his faeces at people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The family “camp” at Christ­mas Island was every inch a detention centre and it deteriorated into one of the most disgraceful things I have seen — it was overcrowded with kids who had no grass to play on. Due to a falling-out between immigration officials and the local sports club, children could see an oval and playground equipment from their compound but they were not ­allowed on it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Guards drank ­heavily, apparently to cope with stress. Some would phone me at night, horribly drunk, to say they could not stop thinking about the cries of parents whose children had drowned. Detainees ­befriended the guards, but sometimes they also attacked them (on one ­occasion by pouring a kettle of hot water over an unsuspecting staff member).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some male guards were accused of assaulting detainees. Stories of middle-aged female guards flirting with young male detainees were common. It was all so sick and strange, and I suspect everyone knew it. The island’s camps began to wind down when the boats stopped, and from July next year the last of them, the men’s detention centre on the northwest corner of the island, will be empty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Built by the Howard government and dormant until the run of boats that started in 2008, this centre was a well-appointed hellhole. Groups of male detainees were caught raping, and attempting to rape, the weak. Self-harm became a form of self-expression; one ­female guard walked into a compound in early 2011 to find a man with his lips sewn and his body strapped high on the fence with his arms out and his feet together “like Jesus Christ or something”. She joined a growing number of colleagues on stress leave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The centre’s “visiting room” was converted to a ward where up to 20 self-harming detainees were under watch each day. These were the lip sewers, cutters, hunger strikers and men who had tried to hang themselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most dominant personalities in detention were in regular contact with <b>refugee</b> advocates. Greg Lake, a former director of offshore operations, was howled down in 2014 when he told me that <b>asylum</b>-seekers in detention were being coached and encouraged to attempt self-harm by <b>refugee</b> ­advocates, who then used the incidents as political capital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lake has long since left the ­Department of Immigration and Border Protection — he is a Christian who said he struggled with Australia’s decision to send <b>asylum</b>-seekers to Nauru. But he is watching the debacle on Manus Island closely. “When you see people exploit their victim status to try to get something from Australia, it’s usually a good sign that they’re not the right person for us to take,” he tells Inquirer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lake stresses that at the height of the arrivals under Labor, many of the <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> were still genuine refugees with heartbreaking stories. But he says opportunism was rife by the time of an influx of middle-class Iranians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There were some Iranians who struggled but probably nothing like the proportion who ended up showing up (in Australia),” he says. “A lot of those who came by <b>boat</b> were here to exploit the system and these people don’t ­deserve the support, frankly. They get in the way.” A former kitchenhand at the family camp on Christmas Island told me in 2011 that the wealthiest new arrivals “bossed staff about like servants”. “We have to call them clients, even when they’re throwing their dinner on the ground,’’ he said at the time. “One Iranian guy said, ‘I’m not going to eat this. Do you know how much I paid to come here?’ ” It seemed to contradict what I thought I knew about <b>asylum</b>-seekers and their motives. I ­realised there was a misunderstanding in some individuals’ minds about what Australia’s ­humanitarian intake was for. Some viewed it as a service they had purchased. Being called “clients” by guards and immigration officials reinforced this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was shocked when a camp doctor told me “Persian prin­cesses” in the camps were asking for breast enhancements and their husbands requested cosmetic dentistry. Sitting on the beach at Flying Fish Cove, the doctor told me his theory that in Iran people-smuggling agents were selling the lie that the Australian government would happily provide these things as soon as they stepped off the <b>boat</b>. Could this be right? I know I did not try as hard as I should have to pursue stories such as this. I felt the claims were too outlandish, too hard to prove or that they would reflect unfairly on the genuine refugees in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then in 2013 the former director of medical health services for Australia’s offshore <b>asylum</b> processing network, Ling Yoong, confirmed to the Medical Observer that detainees did, indeed, request Botox, IVF and breast enhancements when they underwent standard medical checks in the camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was all happening as Syrians began to arrive at Christmas Island by <b>boat</b>. Families fleeing a humanitarian crisis that displaced 5.1 million people were in the same camp as a young Iranian woman who told me — through the detention centre fence — that she had been living in Malaysia but ­decided to come to Australia by <b>boat</b> to pursue a modelling career.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I found it so difficult to believe anyone would risk their life if their life was not already at risk. But I was finding out that they did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among the most extreme ­examples was a British citizen who had no claim to <b>asylum</b> but wanted to live in Australia, and a woman from Russia who arrived with her Afghan boyfriend in 2011 — on the <b>boat</b> ride over she sat on the deck reading a book. In detention, which she initially thought was a hostel, she was shocked to learn from a guard that a few months earlier 50 people had died on a <b>boat</b> like hers that foundered against the cliffs on Christmas Island. Footage of <b>asylum</b>-seekers falling into the sea as that <b>boat</b> broke up in wild weather on December 15, 2010, was a jolt to many Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I looked for a personal story and found nine-year-old Seena Akhlaqi Sheikhdost, who was ­orphaned that day. In the next two months in ­detention on Christmas Island, Seena injured himself kicking his bedposts in grief and told other children that his parents were not dead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On ABC’s Q&A this week, former Labor immigration minister Brendan O’Connor cited that tragedy when he was asked whether the Coalition should ­accept New Zealand’s offer to take the men protesting on Manus ­Island. O’Connor — who oversaw the establishment of a temporary morgue on Christmas Island to hold the many drowned — would say only that he believed the offer should be considered. Though he was interrupted several times, O’Connor insisted on making his point that the passengers on that doomed <b>asylum boat</b> in 2010 had left transit countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I saw the bodies of men, women and children and, let me tell you, when they got on that vessel at that point they were not fleeing persecution,” he said. “We have to find a way to stop people embarking on unseaworthy vessels where they kill themselves. That’s why I don’t bring righteousness or sanctimony to this debate. It’s very complicated.” Amid all this tragedy, I was still looking for happy stories. I found them on “visa days” at the Christmas Island airport where I interviewed freshly released refugees who were suddenly free and on their way to the Australian mainland as permanent residents. It was the loveliest part of the job to speak to people who had found safety and to tell their stories in The Australian. On four occasions that I remember well, newly ­minted visa-holders waited until immigration officials were out of earshot and warned me frauds were getting visas, too. These people were dobbing, and each of them seemed sincerely concerned about the integrity of the system that had helped them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Over time, and without noticing it, I became extremely anxious about the prospect of having to ­report on more drownings. I hated these stories; the raw grief I witnessed on the jetty after a sinking or a capsize had a cumulative effect. I began to wish hard that somebody — anybody — would stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An <b>asylum</b>-seeker coffin is light grey steel with a number on it. Sometimes there were so many dead that airport ground crew worker Mark Stein and his colleagues found it quickest to load them on to planes with a forklift, four at a time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But when baby Abul drowned with almost 100 others between Indonesia and Christmas Island on July 12, 2013, he was placed into a special white coffin with a number on it for his final journey to Melbourne for burial. It was child-sized yet still too big for a 10-week-old baby.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abul’s parents, Masouma and Ali Jafari, told the horrible story of being tricked by people-smugglers who took $25,000 from them, ­assured them they would be safe and put them in a rotting <b>boat</b>. ­Masouma and Ali saved three of their four children as rescuers drew near but the baby was torn from them; when the family was delivered to dry land, Masouma had an empty baby carrier strapped to her chest. A female guard put an arm around her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sometimes there was a miracle amid the misery — baby girl Raha was one. After another <b>asylum boat</b> sank on July 16, 2013, navy crew members from HMAS Warramunga spotted her floating face down in the water. They pulled Raha into a rigid inflatable <b>boat</b> and saved her life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The baby was unresponsive and the <b>boat</b> crew immediately commenced CPR,” the navy later confirmed in an emailed response to my questions about the girl ­locals called “the miracle baby”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Raha had stopped breathing again on the way to the navy vessel and the crew had again revived her. Her 30-year-old mother was never found, nor were 10 others in their party. As Raha was transported to Christmas Island hospital with her two young sisters and their father, Sudollah, the bodies of four drowned adults from Raha’s <b>boat</b> were placed in a refrigerated sea container near the town swimming pool.I worked hard to get the details of this rescue. Trying to be hopeful as ever, I wanted to produce something uplifting. The navy heroes deserved it, I told myself, and it was truly amazing that she survived. But moments before I filed the story I looked again at the photograph that would accompany my words and I wondered what on earth I was thinking. It showed beautiful Raha in her father Sudollah’s lap on the Christmas Island jetty. He was ashen-faced and staring straight ahead. His three girls had just lost their mother. His wife was dead. This was not the dream they had been sold.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Ai Weiwei brings <b>refugee</b> crisis to the 2018 Biennale</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Taylor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>477 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees almost sunk the Biennale of Sydney three-and-a-half years ago when artists threatened to boycott the event in protest at its major sponsor's commercial links to offshore detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the centrepiece of the 2018 Biennale will be more than 250 refugees in an inflatable life raft at Cockatoo Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei's Law of the Journey will be exhibited in the Cockatoo Island Industrial Precinct as part of the contemporary arts festival, which begins on March 16, 2018.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Biennale's artistic director Mami Kataoka said the artwork continued the artist's interest in displaced people and forced migrations around the world. "It will bring the vastness and overwhelming facts of worldwide recent <b>refugee</b> issues in reality through its scale, choice of material of the <b>boat</b> and how it will be presented."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A 60-metre inflatable raft filled with more than 250 figures, Law of the Journey was exhibited in Prague earlier this year. Its rubber material references the mode of transport often taken by refugees crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There's no <b>refugee</b> crisis, only a human crisis ... In dealing with refugees we've lost our very basic values," Ai said in a catalogue essay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai's previous work includes Laundromat, a collection of garments from the Idomeni <b>refugee</b> camp in Greece, and decorating the columns of Berlin's Konzerthaus with 14,000 orange life jackets collected in Lesbos.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kataoka drew a link between the monumental artwork and Cockatoo Island's shipbuilding and convict history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The site itself has history of both forced and intended migrants and [a] history of industrialisation and modernisation as the largest shipyard of the nation, and it does echo with this particular work deeply," she said. The inclusion of Ai's work may provoke uncomfortable memories of the 2014 Biennale, which was roiled by controversy over principal sponsor Transfield Holding's links to offshore detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politicians weighed into the controversy after artists threatened to boycott the event, with Malcolm Turnbull, then federal communications minister, accusing artists of "vicious ingratitude" and saying they had endangered the future of the Biennale. The controversy also led to a debate over whether cash-strapped arts organisations should accept money from ethically dubious sponsors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai's documentary film Human Flow, about the global <b>refugee</b> crisis, will be released in Australian cinemas on March 15 to coincide with the Biennale.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The treatment of refugees remains a potent political issue in Australia. Kataoka questioned whether art can sway politicians or cause people to change their views. "I don't think all art can do that blindly," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I am interested in the works that have the energy, commitment and power to at least make people pause and reassess our preconceived ideas."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>‘Yes’ vote not a sign the country is any more humane</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Greg Barns </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>859 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marriage vote not a sign Australia is becoming more humane, explains Greg Barns</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The victory for marriage equality last week — long overdue — should not be thought as indicating that Australia has become a more humane nation. It hasn’t. This country has merely brought itself into line, a decade after Canada, for example, with other civilised nations in recognising that same-sex relationships should face no discriminatory hurdles.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But at the same time on Manus Island and Nauru the Turnbull Government, in lock step with the ALP, is inflicting daily cruelty on <b>asylum</b> seekers. And indigenous Australians are jailed in record numbers by governments and courts across the nation. The marginalisation and demonisation of those with mental illness by measures such as a capricious welfare system continues unabated. Our education system is one of the most unequal in the world because we allow taxpayer funds to be diverted to private schools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Australia deals with these running sores, when it enacts a meaningful and enforceable human rights law at the federal level, and when it dismantles the collective psychopathy of the Department of Immigration and the bovver boys in the Border Force, then it can celebrate equality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was truly nauseating to hear one of the cruellest of ministers in recent years, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, say last Thursday that he does not believe in discrimination. He said this in the context of rejecting his fellow hardline Right types in the Coalition who want to undermine the clear vote in favour of marriage equality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No, this is not a transcription or editing error. Peter Dutton, the man who deliberately (as opposed to turning a blind eye) presides over inflicting mental and physical harm on persons exercising their lawful right to seek <b>asylum</b> in Australia, said on Thursday last week; “I don’t support discrimination in any form against any person.” George Orwell would be turning in his grave. Mr Dutton is the architect of discrimination. It is this. If you seek <b>asylum</b> in Australia and arrive on a <b>boat</b> to exercise that lawful right, you are given a number, detained in a gulag on Nauru or Manus Island. And that’s not discrimination?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not an isolated instance of the abuse of the word discrimination, Politicians across Australia pledge racial equality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They profess their commitment to cultural diversity. But at the same time they deliberately pursue policies that ensure indigenous Australians are the most jailed group of non-Europeans on earth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Thalia Antony of the <span class="companylink">University of New South Wales</span> recorded on The Conversation on June 6, “In 2015, the adult imprisonment rate of indigenous Australians was still higher than that of African-Americans. In that year, 1745 per 100,000 African-American adults were incarcerated, compared to 2253 per 100,000 indigenous Australian adults (by 2016, the indigenous Australian incarceration rate had risen another 4 per cent, to 2346 adult prisoners per 100,000 adults”), she wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there is the discrimination against welfare recipients. Again, our politicians like to trumpet their view that the welfare system is not discriminatory but is about fairness. The reality is different. Those with mental illness are forced to participate in taxing and meaningless exercises by <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> and if they miss appointments they are plunged into even deeper poverty through suspension of their payment. There is an undue focus on so called <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> fraud and harassment of <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> recipients by debt collectors while the rich and their corporate vehicles hide their wealth in global tax havens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government — and its Labor predecessors were not better — regularly plant stories about so-called hot spots where there are ‘dole bludgers’ and ‘welfare cheats’ residing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In education too we see daily discrimination. The disgraceful fiscal largesse doled out to rich private schools while state schools get by with teachers digging into their own pockets to buy educational resources is commonplace. A recent report by researchers from <span class="companylink">University of Melbourne</span>, <span class="companylink">Macquarie University</span> and <span class="companylink">Curtin University</span> found 70 per cent of students with a disability suffered barriers and resistance to enrolment in schools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s same-sex marriage win means little in the broader context of serial human rights abuses that this country perpetuates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And remember there is no federal human rights law to protect the vulnerable. Australia is the only nation in the developed world without such a law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Worse than that, when the champion of human rights former Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs stood up for the vulnerable she was bullied by the Abbott and Turnbull government and their media friends.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So let’s take a sober reality check please. Australia remains a human rights pariah, a racist, mean nation that threatens its more compassionate neighbours like New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These policies and this mindset are pursued by both major political parties supported by many in the media and are endorsed by millions of voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The same-sex marriage win was simply an acknowledge-ment of reality. Unfortunately the nation has not been reborn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greg Barns is a human rights lawyer. He has advised state and federal Liberal governments.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Upping the ante in 2018</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Louise.Adams </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>615 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">cover story</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ABC</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Harrow Crime series based around an unorthodox forensic pathologist played by Ioan Gruffudd (Game of Thrones).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Invictus Games More than 500 competitors head to Australia to take part in eight days of competition in the international adaptive sports event open to injured and ill veterans and serving defence personnel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mystery Road - the Series The spinoff of the 2013 drama sees acting legend Judy Davis as an outback cop joining forces with Aaron Pedersen's Detective Jay Swan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Riot Damon Herriman, Xavier Samuel, Kate Box and Jessica de Gouw star in a 1970s-set telemovie about the birth of the gay rights movement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Legend of Monkey The ABC, <span class="companylink">Netflix</span> and TVNZ have joined forces to revive the legendary kids show Monkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nine</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian Ninja Warrior The breakout hit of 2017 returns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bite Club Having survived a shark attack, two detectives hunt for a serial killer. With Todd Lasance, Ash Ricardo, Damian Walshe-Howling and Deborah Mailman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Love Island Nine will make its own version of the racy British reality show, in which 20-somethings hook-up in a tropical resort and compete for love, booze and prize mone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation The amiable quiz show hosted by Shaun Micallef jumps from Ten, where it aired from 2009-2012, to Nine with a new group of teams.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Underbelly Files: Chopper Aaron Jeffrey plays Mark "Chopper" Read in a two-part crime drama.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">SBS</span>
</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dead Lucky Rachel Griffiths is a detective obsessed with catching the armed robber who murdered her junior officer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Go Back Live The awarded documentary series returns with a probing look at the <b>asylum</b> seeker and <b>refugee</b> debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Muslims Like Us Ten Australian Muslims with contrasting world views move into a house together for eight days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Safe Harbour Joel Jackson, Ewen Leslie and Phoebe Tonkin are a group of friends on a yachting holiday when they spot a fishing <b>boat</b> filled with <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seven</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Doctor Blake Mysteries The ABC's loss is Seven's gain, as it picks up the hugely popular Craig McLachlan drama.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Interview Andrew Denton returns to TV for a series of in-depth interviews.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hopelessly Devoted To You Delta Goodrem plays sweetheart singer Olivia Newton-John.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The First Wives Club and Back With the Ex Seven tracks the plights of divorcees on the hunt for love, as well as former couples giving it "one last go".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian Gangster A crime drama directed by Gregor Jordon in which the paths of Sydney's underworld and social elite collide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pay TV and streaming</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">13 Reasons Why (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>) The return series of the much-discussed teen drama.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Altered Carbon (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>) A new series set 700 years in the future, when the human mind is digitised and downloaded from body to body.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fighting Season (Foxtel) A character-driven drama about Australian soldiers returning from Afghanistan and the secrets that must remain hidden.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Picnic at Hanging Rock (Foxtel) The "re-imagining" of the Australian novel (and film) boasts a stellar cast of up-and-coming and established actors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Romper Stomper (Stan) Geoffrey Wright revisits his controversial 1992 feature in a six-part drama produced by John Edwards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Great Australian Bake Off (Foxtel) Maggie Beer, Matt Moran, Claire Hooper and Mel Buttle return for a third season of the beloved cooking competition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tidelands (<span class="companylink">Netflix</span>) The streaming giant's first local commission, Tidelands follows a former criminal as she returns home to a small fishing village where the body of a local fisherman washes ashore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">UnREAL (Stan) Just when you think TV can't more assiduously imitate reality, the third season of this pitch-black drama "does" The Bachelorette.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Kalina</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>DIVERSITY SHOUTS NO</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Caroline Overington, Associate Editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2068 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Western Sydney’s anti-marriage equality stance can’t be ignored</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do we need to talk about western Sydney?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Specifically, do we need to talk about why, when the rest of ­Australia voted emphatically for same-sex marriage, western ­Sydney said no?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because it wasn’t just a no. It was a landslide for no. A complete and total rejection of the issue that had the rest of the country doing the Locomotion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Never mind that NSW has Australia’s most flamboyant ­capital, Sydney, with its rainbow-striped pedestrian crossings; never mind that it regards itself as ­fabulously tolerant and diverse; ­discount even the fact Sydney has the world famous, four-decade-old Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras — ­because the truth is NSW had the lowest Yes vote in the nation, and what dragged its vote down?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Western Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Let’s take a deep dive into some numbers: the seat of Blaxland, once held by former prime minister Paul Keating, had the highest No vote in the country: 73.9 per cent, compared with, say, the 80.8 per cent of voters in Malcolm Turnbull’s seat of Wentworth who voted in favour of same-sex marriage. It was the same in the seat of Watson. It had the second highest No vote in the nation, with 69.9 per cent rejecting same-sex marriage, and it’s adjacent to Blaxland, in western Sydney. And on it goes: of 133 electorates nationwide, just 17 voted No, and 12 of those were in western Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is going on? The ABC’s respected analyst Antony Green made this observation on <span class="companylink">Twitter</span>: “Pattern on No vote in western Sydney correlates to electorate with large populations born in non-English-speaking countries.” Again, let’s use Blaxland as the example: the nation’s top No voting seat is held by Labor’s Jason Clare, who is himself married to the daughter of a Vietnamese <b>refugee</b> who arrived by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As electorates go, it is fantastically diverse: a touch over 29 per cent of constituents are Muslim. That’s not twice, or even three times, but 10 times the national average. On the question of background, 14.1 per cent of the population say they have Lebanese ancestry, followed by the 11.3 per cent who are of Chinese ancestry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now let’s look at Watson, held by Labor’s Tony Burke. It has a Muslim population of 23.4 per cent, which is again more than 10 times the national average. Also in Watson, 71 per cent of people — two out of three — speak a language other than English at home. These include Arabic (17.7 per cent), Mandarin and Cantonese (6 per cent and 4 per cent respectively) and Greek (5.1 per cent.) In Werriwa, where the No vote was 63.7 per cent, Arabic is the second most spoken language, after ­English.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The more diverse the community, in terms of race and religion, the likelier they were to say no — emphatically no, in many cases — to same-sex marriage. Yet the backlash to Green’s tweet was ­immediate. One <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> user said: “I don’t think this is the day to make ­divisive demographical ­observations Antony. You can have a beer and gripe with Pauline [Hanson] tomorrow.” Green seemed perplexed, replying: “You mean I should ignore the most statistically interesting aspect of the seat by seat results?” Apparently yes, because the ­criticism kept coming: “I don’t think this stat and ­commentary is necessary … The tone suggests race was a factor. As a community we should be working hard to stamp out this type of ‘branding’.” Another said: “This is far from helpful in this current climate when everyone is jumping on the Muslim-bashing ride.” And: ­“Antony I am disappointed. This is exactly the kind of stat that bigots already misuse.” But others weren’t so shy: “Wake up Lefties. The very people you want to flood Australia don’t accept (same-sex marriage.)” There was also this: “Muslims voted no.” And even: “When they take over, there will be no gays.” Is it really so simple? Can this result be taken to mean that western Sydney is a hotbed of intolerance, maybe even homophobia, and that immigrants are to blame? And if western Sydney is different on the subject of same-sex ­marriage, what else is it different about? Does western Sydney’s stance on gay relationships extend to other social issues, such as the role of women in marriage?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Also, given the result, what would western Sydney, if surveyed, say about contraception? Abortion? Euthanasia?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator David Leyonhjelm was among those who joined the ­debate this week, telling Inquirer “a lot of people suddenly seem interested in whether or not our immigrants are assimilating because now we see that some of them are not integrating very well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s not Muslims, per se. That would be wrong because the Bosnian Muslims and the Turks have integrated very well. And it’s not only Muslims because other groups — the Chinese Christians, for example — are also strongly anti-same-sex marriage. But the result shows us, for the first time, very clearly, that some immigrants hold very different views from mainstream Australia, and I do think there are some other values you could extrapolate it to: and the role of women, and attitude to women working, and at the extreme end of it, even female genital mutilation, because the reality is we have a sizeable group of people who have changed countries yet who continue to live more or less as they lived in the old country.” There is some evidence for this proposition: the notorious radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir makes its home in western Sydney and, indeed, last year hosted a now-notorious public forum in the west at which veiled women discussed the circumstances under which Muslim men should be allowed to hit their wives (not with fists, they said; only with short sticks and pieces of fabric.) Western Sydney is also home to Rissalah College, and several other Islamic schools, where girls as young as five wear veils and can’t wear shorts even for sport; and it is the home of al-Faisal, the Islamic college, which — depressingly for gay kids in the community — proudly announced last year that it had never had a gay student.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it wasn’t just immigrants who voted no in western Sydney. In some seats, it was three out of every four voters, meaning maybe western Sydney hasn’t changed that much at all: Keating himself was conservative on some social issues. (Remember his famous comment, about how two blokes and a cocker spaniel don’t make a family?) Working-class Catholics still live in Sydney’s west in large numbers, and still work in what remain of the old working-class manufacturing jobs. It’s no secret that Catholic priests preached for No, as did the Sydney Anglicans, who put $1 million into the No campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Andrew Jakubowicz, professor of sociology at the <span class="companylink">University of Technology Sydney</span>, says the ­factors were cultural, religious, ­traditional and historical.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I wrote before the survey was even held that Sydney’s ethno-religious community would deliver a strong No,” he says. “People doubted me, but if anything I understated it. These communities are socially conservative and very family focused. Some of them are religious and, let’s face it, the religious leaders for the Russians, the Greeks, the Jews, the Muslims, they were fierce on this from the pulpits. Religious leaders haven’t had a bonanza like this for a century. This was a day for asserting their authority when it’s been gradually eroding. They never get asked about anything any more, and now suddenly everyone wanted to know what they thought, and if they were confused about which way to go, they took their lead from the strong, often-religious communities in which they live.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But it wasn’t just religion. Look at the Chinese community. The vast majority are irreligious. There has been some conversion to Christianity, but many have no religion. But they are very family focused and they were hugely concerned about (the sex education program) Safe Schools. In the last federal election, in seats like Chisholm and Banks, you had Chinese communities on <span class="companylink">WeChat</span> (the Chinese-language social network) saying if you vote Labor, your children will become homosexuals and your family name will die out in a generation, and they voted for anyone who was against Safe Schools, and that is how ­Family First got a foothold there.” Jakubowicz says the ethnic community in Sydney’s west was likely affronted by the question on gay marriage, too. “Look, gay relations are well known in all countries,” he says. “But it’s not marriage. It’s the kind of thing people turn a blind eye to, and always have. I think there would have been people saying: ‘But why would you marry somebody of the same sex?’ Marriage is about potency. It’s about family. It’s about handing down property. It’s about unions between families. Marrying your boyfriend would make no sense, and the idea that they were being asked to approve it would have confused them. Although different people will have different responses. I like to do the classic taxi driver thing, and one taxi driver will tell me: the imam at the mosque won’t stop banging on about it. Who gives a shit what people do? And others will say, of course they can’t get married. Marriage is for children.” Andy Marks, assistant vice-chancellor at the <span class="companylink">Western Sydney University</span>, says the last thing he wants is “for the result to become a narrative about the bigotry, the homophobia, in western Sydney. It’s not about that at all.” “You can analyse the statistics, but those factors — race, religion — are background noise,” Marks says. “In western Sydney, you have hundreds of thousands of people all dealing with the same issues. Their manufacturing jobs are disappearing. You have people stuck in traffic, paying huge tolls, or jammed like sardines into train carriages. You have wage stagnation, and crowded schools and soaring electricity prices. You have childcare fees. Then the political class comes along and says, ‘Excuse us, what do you think about this issue, gay marriage?’ And western Sydney says: ‘Are you kidding me? With all the challenges we face, this is your question?’ “They would consider this a fringe issue at best, a 10th or 12th order issue. The idea that it’s rampant homophobia is wrong. Their level of education is comparable to anyone; they are more worldly and travelled than most, and we’re fortunate to have them, and characterising them as bigoted or homophobic is wrong because you didn’t have people out rallying against same-sex marriage.” He agrees that cultural factors and ­religious teachings were key “but not for the reasons people think. Even in the very strict religious homes, they know this (same-sex relationships) happens, but it’s ­behind closed doors, and it’s the public airing of the question they found uncomfortable. Many of them would see it as an intensely private matter, and why would they be asked about it?” The other interesting factor in the result was how it turned traditional thinking about political tribes on its head: forever it has been the Liberal Party that has been lashed for being old-fashioned and stuck behind the white-picket fence, but most of the No vote seats out west were Labor seats, with Jakubowicz saying: “traditional Labor voters again prove that they have strong conservative values, and I wouldn’t be at all ­surprised to see some of the smaller parties like Family First getting in there at the next election to scoop some of them up”.Marks agrees, although he doubts there will be “a major swing away from Labor. They will stick with Labor, but they are saying we don’t want these issues to be occupying the narrative. How about we talk about transport, cost of living? What I’m hoping is this really could be the emergence of western Sydney as a place that says: ‘we’re tired of these fringe problems. We’ve got problems of our own. How about you listen to them?’ ”</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Mark Isaacs </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's 'project' on the island has brought prosperity and problems, writes Mark Isaacs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the main square of Lorengau, on Manus Island, people mill about on the street in mismatched clothing, chewing betel nut, conversing, selling produce. There is a long line on pay day at the one functioning ATM in town. Information sheets on diabetes are plastered to the bank wall.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am met outside of my hotel in the main square by a local woman named Jill*. I'm advised to avoid the port, just a street from where I am staying, because drunks might rob me at knifepoint. I'm advised to travel around the island in the company of a local to be safe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A melted, crumpled building sags over the footpath on the main road. This used to be a supermarket owned by Chinese migrants before it was burned down with 10 people inside, including women and children. The rumour in town is that the fire was deliberately started by "out-of-towners" to cover up murder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jill and I walk through the town market which has a brand new roof, one of the few infrastructure projects provided to the island by the Australian government as repayment for housing Australia's unwanted <b>boat</b> people. Women with tribe-distinguishing tattoos on their foreheads sit on plastic mats selling fresh produce: eggplants, bananas, beans, stone fruit, cabbages, bok choy, coconuts, dirt-covered potatoes, sago palm. Jill picks up a small green nut.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Green gold," she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jill worked in the Manus Island detention centre for five years. The Project as she calls it, (the definite article is used because there have been so few projects on the island) brought jobs and some financial prosperity to Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There are no jobs in Manus. Usually finding employment in Manus is about who you know. We call it the wan-tok [one talk] system. You only need to talk to one person to get the job. But the Australian organisations weren't affected by nepotism," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to Jill, the prosperity the Project brought the island meant the local people became a centre for the betel nut trade, the green gold. The new wealth of the locals attracted people from other islands for trade and business opportunities. Suddenly they had street vendors and the market was full of strangers. The increased wealth brought greater wealth disparity on the island, which brought crime and theft and conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Even we feel scared walking at night. It didn't used to be like that," Jill said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the stand-off at the Manus Island detention centre rests upon an argument over safety, there are clear signs that there are dangers in the community regardless of whether or not you are a <b>refugee</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the two other supermarkets on the island many of the shelves are empty. Since the razing of the Chinese-owned supermarket, the demand for food has stripped the cupboards bare. On this island it is easier to get soft drink than bottled water. There has been a delayed shipment to the island which means there is an island-wide fuel shortage. The electricity is being cut off during the day to save energy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Life is hard in Manus," Jill says. "But these refugees are given everything. Food, housing, cigarettes, an allowance. What do we get?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I learn that there are many locals who feel the same way. In their corrugated iron housing is it any wonder they are resentful of the million-dollar facilities housing the <b>asylum</b> seekers?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Jill and her friends' perspective, the problems all started when the refugees were forced to live in the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This was not the Manus people's decision. The refugees want to go to Australia. They don't want to stay in Manus. This causes problems for everyone here. We don't want them here if they are unhappy. Those men have been here for four years and they need to be resettled somewhere else."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian and Papua New Guinea governments are determined to relocate the refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers to two new settlement locations on the island. East Lorengau Transit Centre (ELTC) was built three years ago and houses processed refugees. West Haus, or Hillside Haus depending on who you are talking to, accommodates those who have been given negative <b>refugee</b> assessments. There is supposed to be a third site, but no one in the community knows where it is.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gulam* is a short man from Bangladesh in his 40s with chipmunk cheeks and a comb-over. He says his hair started to go grey when he arrived in Manus, a stress-related fade. He moved to ELTC from the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre (MIRPC) in July 2015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They told me I would have more freedom, more opportunity, more money there. But it was all lies."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gulam sleeps in a cramped room that barely fits two bunk beds with three other men. There is no air-conditioning so it is too hot to stay inside the room during the day. Twelve people share one kitchen and one toilet. At the front entrance to the centre there is a boom gate manned by Australian and PNG security guards. An easily scaleable fence surrounds the perimeter. The refugees are not allowed visitors. It's another detention centre, another prison, just with a different face.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every <b>refugee</b> I meet in the community in Manus has a story of violence at the hands of locals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"On the road to market, we pass through the jungle and people hide there like tigers and attack us. They threaten us with machetes and demand money, cigarettes and our mobile phones. I have been attacked and robbed four times. They think we are rich," Gulam says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But most of the refugees appear rich only in comparison to the poverty of the local community. In reality their smartphones are paid off week by week. Those refugees in ELTC receive 100 kina ($40) allowance per week and a small amount of food.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"With that money I must buy medication, phone credit and groceries. And cigarettes. Before Manus I didn't smoke. I became addicted to the free cigarettes in the camp," Gulam says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When we lived in the detention centre we were given free cigarettes which the locals expected us to share. But they don't realise that the people living in East Lorengau don't get free cigarettes any more," says Nasir*, a young Rohingya man.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of the physical dangers for refugees appear to be a product of wealth inequality. Impoverished local young men, drunk or high, pick on refugees as easy targets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are only a few refugees who have jobs in the community. Nasir is a truck driver but he can't find any work because there aren't any jobs on the island. Gulam sells packaged lunches at the market in town for income, but he thinks it's too dangerous to leave the centre to continue his work. The men don't feel like they belong in Manus, they feel like unwanted outsiders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The local call us illegal immigrants. They tell us to go back to our own countries. We tell them that your government brought us here," Gulam says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Without work, without purpose, without family, life becomes unbearable and some men resort to alcohol and marijuana to dull the pain. In town I see an intoxicated Iranian man stumbling across the road shouting belligerently at passersby. Behaviour like this makes many locals believe the refugees bring the violence upon themselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the MIRPC, one of security's jobs was to keep people alive, to cut people down when they tried to hang themselves. The danger of East Lorengau is that there isn't enough security to prevent the men from hurting themselves. There have been two suicides in the community in the past three months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is clear the trust between the refugees and the locals has broken down. They are suspicious of each other, they are critical of each other. Despite this tension, there are many friendships and relationships between locals and refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Umsal* is a handsome man with Bollywood actor features. He is from the Sundarbans in Bangladesh, a vast jungle of tigers and snakes and elephants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He left the MIRPC when the services ceased and the conditions deteriorated. But he avoided the transit centres and stayed with a local woman, Fanny, with whom he is in a relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I do not enjoy Manus. Life is a struggle. It is a struggle for everyone," Umsal says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"That's why we found each other," Fanny* said. "We were both struggling."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are not free. I'm worried about attacks all the time," Umsal says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fanny accompanies him everywhere. She thinks it's too dangerous for him to go anywhere alone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fanny's family support them and their relationship, but they are worried about him leaving. Umsal was given a negative <b>refugee</b> assessment and his residency status is now uncertain. As far as they know, he could be deported at any moment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locals expressed concern about relationships between local women and refugees whose future on the island was uncertain, of pregnancies with a high likelihood of abandonment. What would happen to the children of these refugees when their fathers were relocated to another country?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has tried to use the existence of relationships between local women and refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers as evidence of community harmony. However, these relationships are rare and uncomfortable circumstances, which usually cause tension in the community. In the case of Umsal, the uncertainty of his future is disruptive and upsetting for everyone involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I tell him not to worry about the future. He should live for today," she said. "But he gets very worried."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"My life is over," he mutters to me without Fanny hearing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not everyone benefited from the employment and prosperity the Project brought to the island, and not everybody was willing to work at the detention centre. Some locals have staged protests against the centre, brandishing signs that read "Manus Alliance Against Human Rights Abuse" and "Australia Don't Abandon Your Responsibility". Some of these human rights activists, such as Ben Wamoi, fled the island after receiving threats from the police.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The MIRPC is a poisoned chalice, bringing with it societal discord and a negative international reputation that the people of Manus are keen to shed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The media has portrayed us as bad people but Melanesian culture is friendly, family-orientated. We like to smile, enjoy, be happy," Jill says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The international media's portrayal of Manus has led to a deep distrust in journalists and foreigners that has created a fascist monitoring of association.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jill does not want anyone in the Manus community to know that she is helping me write this article because she is worried that she will be reported to the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The closure of the MIRPC has left most of the local detention centre staff without jobs. Many of the unemployed hit the streets on a Friday night, spending their severance pay on alcohol and betel nut, perpetuating the cycle of poverty and violence. Jill is hoping for employment with the new resettlement program but nobody knows when this stand-off will end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I meet the mayor of Lorengau, Ruth Mandrakamo, by chance in a car to the airport.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The Australian government sealed the main road, assisted with some schools, refurbished the police station, and upgraded facilities at the naval base," she says. "I am envious of the aid they have given us over the years but it means we feel obliged to help Australia. The decision to establish the detention centres was top down, straight from the Prime Minister. There was no community consultation."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">*Names have been changed</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is an edited extract from Mark Isaacs' Midnight Tour of the Damned, a chapter on Manus Island written as part of an anthology for the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin and the "State of Refugees" project.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'There are no jobs in Manus.' Former detention centre employee</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'We pass through the jungle and people hide there like tigers and attack us.' <b>Refugee</b></p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>521 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull Government seems determined to look a gift horse in the mouth in the form of a partial solution to the Manus Island impasse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has taken a swipe at neighbours New Zealand and Papua New Guinea for trying to organise a transfer of <b>asylum</b> seekers in limbo on the island, warning both countries that any deal could harm their diplomatic relationships with Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rather than spouting off about the remote possibility a one-off arrangement involving, say, 150 people might prompt the people smugglers to start touting Australia as a destination again, Mr Dutton would be wise to consider his options.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How else will he get Australia out of this mess? And why is an agreement between PNG and New Zealand any more likely to spark a new influx of <b>boat</b>-borne refugees than the deal with the US that has, so far, sent about 50 detainees off to the land of the brave and the free?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Everything that has been done so far to de-escalate the looming humanitarian disaster on Manus just hasn't worked. Recent actions have, if anything, made matters worse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A case in point was the decision to cut off essential services at the now-closed detention centre, which 370 men are refusing to leave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That, if anything, made the occupants even more determined and drew attention to the inept way in which the transition to the new, and as-yet unfinished, accommodation had been handled. Then, after the toilets clogged up and the refugees had to dig wells in the exercise yard for water, Immigration officials accused them of trashing the facility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A pragmatist would be advising the government to ditch its hardline rhetoric in favour of putting an end to a tragic episode that has brought Australia into disrepute. There is a partial solution on offer that requires little if any involvement by Australia, other than to withdraw its opposition to the plan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It could be argued that just as PNG did this country's then Labor government a huge favour by agreeing to the reopening of Manus in 2012, NZ would be doing the Turnbull government a favour by offering at least some of the men a permanent home. Given the parlous state of the current parliament and the sinking opinion polls, the Manus Island situation is one issue the Turnbull government does not need dragging on as the next federal election draws nearer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given the bridge building that must have taken place after Jacinda Ardern's recent election as New Zealand's Prime Minister after Julie Bishop's ill-considered comments, Mr Dutton must realise making empty threats against our cousins across the Tasman is not a good look.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The same goes for PNG. That is also a long- standing international relationship of great importance to this country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is time for Mr Dutton to step back and allow this issue to quietly resolve itself in the most humane possible manner. It is only then that the suffering of these unfortunate victims of persecution will finally cease.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>TO THE POINT</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>David.Ellery </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>267 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SESELJA OUT OF STEP</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The very high yes vote in the ACT for same-sex marriage shows once again that we are the most progressive section of Australian society. Yet in Zed Seselja we have one of the most conservative senators. It is time for liberal Liberal voters to reject this rabid reactionary.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Passant, Kambah</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ELECTORATES SHOW WAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seventy-five per cent of Abbott's electorate said yes, as did Zed's ACT. Hopefully they now realise that the electorate really is much more liberal than they are.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Campbell, Cook</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SHAMEFUL STANCE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Dutton claims allowing refugees from Manus to be resettled in New Zealand could lead boats to restart. How tragic that, despite him claiming we now have an unprecedented number of assets monitoring our maritime borders, at huge cost, it is still deemed necessary to prolong the suffering of the genuine refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers on Manus Island in order to deter new <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How tragic, and how shameful.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anne Aisbett, Page</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">OPPOSITION TO NZ, REALLY?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian government would not consider the NZ government's offer to take in 150 refugees. Peter Dutton even threatens there would be consequences if NZ went ahead to make a bilateral deal with PNG. Would they have given more consideration if the offer had come from the rogue regime in Cambodia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rajend Naidu, Glenfield, NSW</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BERNARDI ODD ONE OUT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Cory Bernardi is a conservative. But what is he trying to conserve that people cannot conserve by themselves? Has he any actual useful function in the Parliament?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael McCarthy, Deakin</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>IN SHORT FICTION</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Kerryn Goldsworthy </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>636 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PICK OF THE WEEK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AMY STEWART</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SCRIBE, $32.99</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The year is 1916, the place is Hackensack, New Jersey, and the main character is closely based on a real person, the redoubtable and appropriately named Constance Kopp, one of the first female deputy sheriffs in the US. The other main characters are also historical, including Constance's sisters Norma and Fleurette, as well as the two young women whose cases she becomes involved in, and her boss, the unusually liberal-minded and laid-back Sheriff Heath. This is the third book in a series about Miss Kopp, and Amy Stewart does an impressive job of bringing her historical characters back to life and shaping her factual material into a reasonably neat fictional plot with some clear messages about women's lives. The backdrop of the war provides some fascinating material about American women who volunteered as nurses and ambulance drivers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Lone Child</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ANNA GEORGE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">VIKING, $29.99</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are many things going on in this novel but the one that really leaps out is Anna George's scorn for the notion that Australia is a classless society. Of the two main characters, one is a well-known and well-heeled Melbourne architect called Neve Ayres who has just become a new, and reluctantly single, mother at the age of almost 40. The other, Leah Chalmers, has just been thrown out of her sister's house and now has nothing but two daughters and a clapped-out car. Each has a stereotyped and unpleasant view of the other, but what they have in common is their struggle with motherhood, having both been abandoned by their children's respective fathers. The action takes place over one Easter weekend, and there's one extraordinary development late in the plot that calls everything into question.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sanctuary</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JUDY NUNN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WILLIAM HEINMANN, $32.99</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both the author and the publisher must be startled by the serendipitous timing of this book's publication, at a moment when all Australian eyes are turned to the crisis on Manus Island. Judy Nunn's story involves the eight survivors of a shipwrecked people-smuggler's <b>boat</b> who wash up on Gevaar Island off the coast of Western Australia. The nearest town is the imaginary fishing village of Shoalhaven, where the small community reacts in different ways to the new arrivals. The politics of this novel are straightforward, with sympathy firmly on the side of the <b>asylum</b> seekers. The characters and their back-stories are drawn with empathy and skill. It's a piece of well-crafted commercial fiction, storytelling of the kind that Judy Nunn has long since mastered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Travelling Cat Chronicles</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HIRO ARIKAWA; TRANS., PHILIP GABRIEL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DOUBLEDAY, $29.99</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While this story about decency, generosity and affection is not strictly for cat lovers, cat lovers will love it. The human hero, Satoru, lonely after his wife leaves him, encounters a tough stray cat and eventually adopts him and calls him Nana, the Japanese word for "seven" because Nana's hooked tail looks like that number. But then Satoru packs up Nana and takes him on a long road trip through Japan in his silver van, and as they visit one old friend after another, Nana begins to realise that something is up. This book could easily become twee, but somehow it never quite does come to that, and what we're left with is a man and his cat on a road trip, some stories of the man's life and friends, and a beautiful travelogue of Japan. And some of it is very funny and sweet, like Nana's first close encounter with the ocean and his realisation that the sea is more than just a big bowl of fish soup.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>847 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JT, I think you will find most <b>asylum</b> seekers arrive here with little to no skills so go straight onto welfare. While you’re at it, check the statistics on unemployment rates of <b>asylum</b> seekers. – O1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Southport has lost its soul, no bakery to grab a pie or a burger shop when hungover. Bring back the mall. CBD insanely barren now. – Marshy</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes Mr Barry C. Gold Coast and most of Australia is boring. So over regulated. Too many do gooders ringing up and complaining about everything. Plenty of little towns out west where you can go and live and sit in your quiet little town and be miserable. They need music and lots of little bars along our coast beaches so we can have fun and be happy. And yes I am an old person.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prayers and best wishes for Tommy, our lovely Mayor and his family. Positive attitude as always Tom. – Shezz</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A poll in NZ result was 70% don’t want Manus Island <b>asylum</b> seekers. Ardern’s offer to Australia to take them is hers not NZ's. Wonder how big her house and bank account is? KJ.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sinbad you ask ‘what’s a 94 y/o doing behind the wheel’? Then we oldies ask ‘what’s immature teenage rev heads doing behind the wheel?’</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GW it’s good you pay tax. Let them live off your tax all 600 of them. I would rather my taxes help pensioners who have paid taxes. What are your thoughts on refugees who have defrauded <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> of tens of millions of dollars?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JT, Tess 600 Manus detainees may well have become skilled workers if they came here. But what would we do with the other 30,000 the <b>boat</b> smugglers would have brought? – John Mc</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Can someone buy Fraser Anning a beer for dumping One Nation and becoming an independent? All of the voting public should do the same as they are a lost cause just like the LNP who are relying on their preferences to win. – Trust Me</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No friends? Buy a ute, you will have more friends than you need in no time. – BigDog</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Re. Nuclear power station for New England electorate. Barnaby Joyce must be supported by all parties so clean cheap nuclear energy can be generated. Families and businesses will greatly benefit. Family tax rebates could be increased. Let’s all get behind Barnaby’s push for nuclear power. – John</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Will the abc ever put up a Xmas tree or decoration in the news room, cant remember ever seeing anything festive</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BOM your forecasting leaves a lot to desire. Monday you stated 16C to 24C. But it was 19C to 26C, I understood your new equipment would make it more accurate, but it’s no better than before. – Terry</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So they let 8 year olds drive a drag racer at speeds up to 90km/h. Absolute madness!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Can I sue for false representation? I used well known and expensive TV advertised fly spray on a lone fly. Fast knock down … huh? Sprayed enough on the pesky thing over the evening to kill an elephant. Plus my husband but it was still staggering around in the morning. Bring back the trusty fly strips. They were ugly but effective. – Granny Annie</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sarah Hanson-Young you nailed Pauline Hanson big time. – Pitbull</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was wondering, do politicians take courses in how to avoid answering questions. Some are great at it and others not so much. – GT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am a little confused. Is silly fork-tongued Annastacia in favour of the Adani coal mine going ahead or not?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What kind of conspiracy are we having in Queensland Election this year? Only three candidates on a ballot paper. What happened to all the others?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the trams are running from Helensvale, why can’t they be put on line for Christmas shopping before Christmas?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What’s happened to our beaches? The pumper has gone the legacy is that the beaches r probably the most dangerous they’ve ever been. Tough summer coming up for the lifeguards. – Concerned</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Has anyone tried to swim at the beaches? They're a death trap. Can high paid spokesman justify the expense of the sand pumping folly?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Re Black Swan Lake. The bird life will find another home when the lake is filled in. The environment is always changing either by humans or through natural causes (drought, flood, earthquake etc) and animals move on. The birds probably go to other food source places on a daily basis anyway. I love animals but I have a realistic view.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ever seen a schoolie high on red frogs, noodles and passion pop? I have. Double bolt your doors. – Fred</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I wake on November 26 I demand every political eyesore be gone from our city. These signs are a blight on the landscape. – Coaster</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To gentleman with wife needing MRI. Go to Brisbane you will get an appointment next day. Good luck.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amputee had to fight for 2 years to get disability pension, but illegal <b>asylum</b> seeks rorted the government for $10 million. – Mick</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We pay to keep violent <b>refugee</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>KEITH MOOR </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>385 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2017 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TAXPAYERS may have to fork out millions of dollars to detain a <b>refugee</b> who can’t be deported despite a court being told he wants to blow up Australians and mow down police.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police detectives were so convinced of a credible and ­imminent threat they appealed directly to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to ­deport Iranian­ Behzad Bashiri.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bashiri was arrested last month and is in immigration detention as an “unlawful non-citizen”. But Mr Dutton has been unable to deport him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Visiting Canberra last year, Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran would not accept repatriation of its citizens against their will.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So Bashiri may have to stay in immigration detention, at a cost to taxpayers of at least $110,000 a year. There is no limit on how long immigration authorities can detain a person.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detective Scott Sheedy told a recent bail hearing that police held “grave fears for the safety of the public” if Bashiri, 35, were freed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The officer told Sunshine Magistrates’ Court that police had evidence Bashiri had threatened to bomb Australia and labelled Aussies terrorists who were killing children in his country; poured petrol on himself in a government building and produced a lighter; and threatened to kill Australian embassy staff in Iran. He is also accused of stalking police.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bashiri arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> in 2011, claiming to be a <b>refugee</b> from Iran. The court has heard his psychiatrist went to authorities after their conversations led him to believe Bashiri was likely to harm police and the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detective Sheedy told the court Bashiri “has indicated a hatred of Australia and contempt for government officials. (He) has a proven history of committing serious crime and has displayed the motivation and capabilities to use violence to support his ideology.” In Queensland, Bashiri was convicted of threatening violence and given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, after pouring petrol over himself in 2012 and claiming he was going to set a government building on fire.In June, he was convicted of stalking, assaulting police, ­resisting arrest, committing an indictable offence while on bail and acting in a disruptive manner in a police jail. He served 13 days in jail before being given a 12-month corrections order.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ONE BLAST CHANCE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RENEE VIELLARIS & KEITH MOOR </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>596 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A VIOLENT <b>refugee</b> has been able to unleash chaos across two states – including allegedly threatening to bomb Australia and mow down police with a truck – after a soft-touch Queensland magistrate gave him a light sentence so he wouldn’t be deported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Magistrate Joan White talked openly in court about ensuring Iranian <b>refugee</b> Behzad Bashiri did not lose his visa before giving him a suspended ­sentence for frightening crimes in Queensland. Now police have warned they have “grave fears for the safety of the public” if he’s not locked up.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CONTINUED P4 Judge’s soft call allowed <b>refugee</b> threat to grow FROM P1 Bashiri (inset), 35, who is in NSW custody awaiting further charges, had his protection visa cancelled by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton in October after he was lobbied by Victorian detectives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The crimes and state of mind of Bashiri had become so alarming that his own psychiatrist alerted authorities that he was a threat to police and ordinary Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Courier-Mail can reveal that, after arriving by <b>boat</b> in 2011, and being granted a protection visa, Bashiri was before Ms White (pictured, far right) in Beenleigh Magistrates Court in October 2012.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Queensland and Victorian police are still reeling from the wholly suspended sentence handed down by Ms White five years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court was told he walked into Access Employment Services in Logan in September 2012 and warned he would be back the next day to set himself and the building alight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next day he turned up with a three-litre plastic milk bottle of fuel and a lighter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He yelled that he was going to kill himself and started splashing petrol around. Over two days of hearings, Ms White spoke openly in court with two duty lawyers about making it easier for Bashiri. She spoke about how tough it was for refugees and how they could keep him off the radar of Immigration Department officials. In 2012, a year’s jail was a benchmark for refugees’ visas to be revoked and deport them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms White acknowledged he faced serious charges and said: “The other alternative is a period of imprisonment. It’d be wholly suspended, but I don’t know how that’s going to affect his visa?” “My goodness, it would drive anyone to distraction, what happened to him,” she said, before adding refugees had some difficulties that “we can’t even understand, really”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After a six-month, wholly suspended sentence, Bashiri embarked on a crime spree that included threatening a Queensland female police officer and her daughter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Brimbank detective Scott Sheedy told Sunshine Magistrates Court in Victoria a Queensland senior constable who investigated the incident in Logan was later targeted online by Bashiri.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victorian police also submitted evidence Bashiri threatened to bomb Australia; warned a Victoria Police officer that he knew where he lived, what car he drove and that he intended murdering the officer’s wife and daughter; and said he would kill Australian embassy staff in Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sen-Constable Sheedy told Sunshine Magistrates Court during Bashiri’s bail application that police held “grave fears for the safety of the public” if Bashiri were to be released. “The applicant has a proven history of committing serious crime and has displayed the motivation and capabilities to use violence to support his ideology.The court heard Bashiri was convicted in Sunshine Magistrates Court in June on charges including stalking, assaulting police, resisting arrest, committing an indictable offence while on bail and acting in a disruptive manner while in a police jail.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | queensl : Queensland | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020171114edbf0004a</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020171114edbf0004d" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>You pay to keep <b>refugee</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>KEITH MOOR </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>610 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2017 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TAXPAYERS may have to fork out millions of dollars to detain a <b>refugee</b> who can’t be deported despite a court being told he wants to blow up Australians and mow down police.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victoria Police detectives were so convinced of a credible and imminent threat they appealed directly to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to ­deport Iranian Behzad Bashiri.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bashiri was arrested last month and is in immigration detention as an “unlawful non-citizen”. But Mr Dutton has been unable to deport him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Visiting Canberra last year, Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran would not accept repatriation of its citizens against their will.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So Bashiri may have to stay in immigration detention, at a cost to taxpayers of at least $110,000 a year. There is no limit on how long immigration authorities can detain a person.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Brimbank detective Scott Sheedy told a recent bail hearing police held “grave fears for the safety of the public” if Bashiri, 35, were freed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CONTINUED PAGE 2 FROM PAGE 1 Sen-Det Sheedy told Sunshine Magistrates’ Court police had evidence Bashiri had: THREATENED to bomb Australia and make big problems for Australians, whom he labelled terrorists who were killing children in his country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">POURED petrol over himself in a government building and produced a lighter in front of terrified staff, threatening to burn the place down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WARNED a Victoria Police officer he knew where he lived, what car he drove, and that he intended murdering the officer’s wife and daughter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">STALKED and threatened other Victorian and Queensland police officers. CONTACTED the teen daughter of a policewoman during a concerted campaign to intimidate and scare her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THREATENED to kill Australian embassy staff in Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bashiri arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> in 2011, claiming to be a <b>refugee</b> from Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court has heard his psychiatrist went to authorities after their conversations led him to believe Bashiri was likely to harm police and the broader community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sen-Det Sheedy told the court Bashiri “has indicated a hatred of Australia and contempt for government officials. (He) has a proven history of committing serious crime and has displayed the motivation and capabilities to use violence to support his ideology.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He has a history of stalking police and has demonstrated behaviours and actions that are of huge concern.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(He) has known mental health issues and has indicated wanting to run over police with a truck, which is gravely concerning given the recent ­attacks overseas,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He has harassed, threatened and intimidated court security staff and Protective Services Officers and continued to maintain his hatred for police and other government employees. He has been observed to conduct surveillance on police and court staff to identify personal vehicles.” In Queensland, Bashiri was convicted of threatening violence and given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, after pouring petrol over himself in 2012 and claiming he was going to set a government building on fire.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In June, he was convicted in Sunshine Magistrates’ Court of stalking, assaulting police, resisting arrest, committing an indictable offence while on bail and acting in a disruptive manner in a police jail. He served 13 days’ jail and was given a 12-month Community Corrections Order requiring 50 hours’ unpaid work and mental health and drug testing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bashiri’s case is similar to that of killer John Basikbasik, who used a child’s bicycle to beat his pregnant Australian spouse to death in 2000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Found to be a <b>refugee</b>, he can’t be returned to Indonesia and has been in immigration detention more than 10 years.keith.moor@news.com.au</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Han Nguyen Han Nguyen </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>363 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 November 2017</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2017 The Canberra Times </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A six-storey, 79-unit mixed commercial and residential development is planned for one of Kingston foreshore's prime waterfront spots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Canberra developer Keggins Homes has applied for an exemption from having to do an environmental impact statement. The block is identified on the register of contaminated sites and asbestos has been found in soil testing, including in the footprint of a former rowing club building on site. The rowing club is being demolished.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Part of the site was part of the former <b>boat</b> harbour, which was reclaimed. The rest of the site was used for stockpiling during redevelopment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Keggins bought the waterfront block at the foreshore's peninsula precinct at an auction in June last year. It paid $21.65 million for the 3697 square-metre site, the most expensive sale of land in the lakeside region. Seventy-nine apartments are planned including two, three and four-bedroom apartments or townhouses. Sixteen penthouse apartments are also proposed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Keggins Homes managing director Jin Wang said at the time his organisation wanted to build a structure Canberrans would be proud of at the north-facing waterfront location. There are plans for private rooftop terraces, balconies, a central communal plaza at ground level, two levels of basement car parking and ground floor courtyards. Sixteen "penthouse apartments" are planned - 10 on the fourth floor, five on the fifth floor, and a two-storey apartment across both floors. According to a planning application now open for public comment, the carpark will provide 216 spaces, 146 of which are for residents. The response at the first community consultation was mixed, according to a report lodged by the developers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conservator liaison Helen McKeown said the proposed development was close to the refuge area in Jerrabomberra Wetlands for the Latham snipe. Ms McKeown said "light spill" from the complex must be kept to a minimum and not encroach onto the <b>refugee</b> area.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There appeared to be large use of reflective neutral glazing, which could cause light spill at night and glare spots during the day that could affect the refuge area.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Submissions close on the development application on November 24.</p>
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